The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Adolf Wölfli, detail of Saint-Mary-Castle-Giant-Grape, 1915
part of the vast Rock Garden of Chandigarh by self-taught Indian artist, Nek Chand Saini
I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rock Garden of Chandigarh, above and below at left
Annie Lucas, Four Beasts at the Throne of Heaven, 1994
Henry Darger, Collage Girl BlenginOrdinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
detail of a Tantric painting from Rajasthan, c 2002
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
― Mel Brooks
The first lift shaft was built four years before the first lift. In 1852 Peter Cooper was constructing the Cooper Union building in New York with an elevator shaft, in the sure and certain knowledge that if he built it, the lift would come. That isn’t an act of impatience, it’s an act of faith, and it is, archetypally, the act of an American..
― A.A. Gill, To America with Love
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