April 2012
93 posts
“You constantly revile me with your singular lack of vision. Be aware, there is an essential truth and beauty in all things. From the death throes of a speared gazelle to the damaged smile of a freeway homeless. But that does not mean that the invisibility of something implies its lack of being. Though simpleton babies foolishly believe the person before them vanishes when they cover their eyes during a hateful game of peek-a-boo, this is a fallacy. And so it is that the unseen dusty build up that accumulates behind the DVD shelves in the rumpus room exists also. This is unacceptable.”
—Werner Herzog’s Note To His Cleaning Lady (via snowce)
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…our world having once emerged for no purpose, nobody knows exactly how, it follows its course perfectly indifferent to our wishes and it will certainly end one way or another: the earth incinerated by the dying sun, the universe immobilized forever in thermodynamic equilibrium, the solar system reduced to a black hole. As to human destiny, “they were born, they suffered, they died,” as Anatole France’s shortest world history would have it. Ultimately, the history of the universe appears to be the history of the defeat of Being by Nothingness: matter, life, the human race, human intelligence and creativity —everything is bound to end in defeat; all our efforts, suffering, and delights will perish forever in the void, leaving no traces behind.
This sounds banal and it is banal and therefore important, as the banal is no less than what is known and experienced by all.
” —Leszek Kołakowski, Religion If There Is No God. (via mills)
“The isms go; the ist dies; art remains.”
—Vladimir Nabokov in his lecture on Gustave Flaubert, asserting the historic relativity and therefore the artistic irrelevance of academic terms like “realism” or “post-modernist.” (via mills)
