the spirit of solitude pouring out the unfamiliar, original, the perverse (6 June 2016)

Fiona Hall, Paradisus Terrestris, 1990

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

 - Sandra Bernhard

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

- Thomas Mann

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

- Thomas Mann 

Anish Kapoor, Untitled series, 2012


The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

- Thomas Mann 

Miró, Painting (The Magic of Colour) / Peinture (La Magie de la couleur)