Salvador Dali, Flowers

Salvador Dali. Flowers. 1948

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‘The mouth that has been kissed does not lose its good fortune: rather, it renews itself just as the moon does.’

                                     Italian Proverb

When I am reminded of Beauty...

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Meander, Spiral, Explode by Jane Alison

The most important book I have read in 2019.

Writing is not what happens next, it's why it is happening.

The Beauty Myth

“Ideal beauty is ideal because it does not exist; The action lies in the gap between desire and gratification. Women are not perfect beauties without distance. That space, in a consumer culture, is a lucrative one. The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage, its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.” 


                    —Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

Such a desperation lately.

“What I value is the naked contact of a mind.” 
― Virginia Woolf

Art

“In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.” 


                                            ― Robert McKee

More on Art

“Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.”

                                 

                             —Franz Kafka

from “The Place I Want to Get Back To” by Mary Oliver

I go out to the dunes and look
and look and look
into the faces of the flowers;
and then one of them leaned forward
and nuzzled my hand, and what can my life
bring to me that could exceed
that brief moment?

                      —Mary Oliver