ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): art

Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

THOMAS MANN

Doctor Faustus

To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is my conviction that the intellect can be certain that in doing what most disconcerts the crowd, in pursuing the most daring, unconventional advances and explorations, it will in some highly indirect fashion serve man - and in the long run, all men.

Sunday, August 25, 2024

Reading

Adam Moss
THE WORK OF ART
How Something Comes from Nothing

Monday, November 13, 2023

JULIAN BARNES
Flaubert's Parrot

Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence. Art is not a brassiére. At least, not in the English sense. But do not forget that brassiére is the French for life-jacket.

Sunday, March 26, 2023

Daily Painting
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Jacob Hendrik Pierneef

Twin Peaks Beyond, Stellenbosch (1928)

Monday, March 6, 2023

Daily Painting

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Eric Bowman

Early Retirement {ND)

Thursday, March 2, 2023

Daily Painting

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Lucian Freud

Sunny Morning - Eight Legs (1997)

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Daily Painting

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Michael Andrews

Portrait of Timothy Behrens ()

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Daily Painting

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William H. Johnson

Self-Portrait [ND - 1930s]

William H. Johnson

Self-Portrait [ND - 1930s]

William H. Johnson

Self-Portrait [ND - 1930s]

Monday, February 27, 2023

Daily Painting

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Benny Andrews

Did the Bear Sit Under the Tree? (1969)

Sunday, February 26, 2023

Daily Painting

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Lionel Smit

Girl with Blue (2013)

Saturday, February 25, 2023

Daily Painting

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Faith Ringgold

American People #20 (1968)

Friday, February 24, 2023

Daily Painting

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Benny Andrews

Portrait of Black Madonna (1987)

Thursday, February 23, 2023

Daily Painting

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Emmanuel Jegede

The Sacrifice (ND)

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Daily Painting

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Wangechi Mutu

Cassandra (2007)

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Daily Painting

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Ibrahim El-Salahi

Flamenco Dancers (2011)

Monday, February 20, 2023

Daily Painting

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Barthélémy Toguo

Déluge I (2016)

Sunday, February 19, 2023

Daily Painting

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George Pemba

The Trek (1975)

Saturday, February 18, 2023

Daily Painting

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Simphiwe Ndzube

Madolo and the Aardwolf, 2020

Friday, February 17, 2023

Daily Painting

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Austin Miles

Finding Angelo (2020)

Thursday, February 16, 2023

Daily Painting

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William H. Johnson

Army Training (1942)

William H. Johnson

Off to War (1942)

William H. Johnson

Training for War (1942)

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SOME QUOTES

MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

DOROTHY ALLISON

If it’s true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hate in the world is religion and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of that. And I think it should be - religion - treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

So when I say that I think religion poisons everything, I’m not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity.

It says we can’t be moral without “Big Brother,” without a totalitarian permission. It means we can’t be good to one another without this. It means we must be afraid.

We must also be forced to love someone whom we fear - the essence of sado-masochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the Master/Slave relationship. And that it knows death is coming, and can’t wait to bring it on.

I say that is Evil.

And though I do, some nights, stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and this ultimate stupidity.

JACK LONDON

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time living.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. How extraordinary it is to be here at all!

DOROTHY PARKER

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

There’s no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?

CARL SAGAN

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.

When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites - now down to 10 seconds or less - lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

MARGARET MEAD

It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.