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Waiting for Our Wits

“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
- Eden Phillpots

December 7th, 2011 at 9:41 am

“Glorious job”

From Paul Thek’s 1973 notebook:

“We must discover WHY we are really painting, really WHY… painters are priests… IT IS A GLORIOUS JOB + WE… TRY ALWAYS HARDER + ALWAYS WE KNOW IT IS NEVER ENOUGH…”

Via: Artforum, January 2011, pg 167.

May 9th, 2011 at 12:24 pm

Being in the world is making a world

“According to Santiago’s theory, cognition is not a representation of an independent, pregiven world but rather a bringing forth of the world.  What is brought forth by a particular organism in the process of living is not the world but a world, one that is always dependent on the organism’s structure.”

Fritjof Capra, “Web of Life“, pg. 270

[ thanks Angeles! ]

May 16th, 2010 at 5:12 pm