“One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.”
-– Joseph Campbell, author
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“he erased the distinctions between art and ideas, putting a positive, endgame value on long-term exploring over short-term arriving”
“Leonardo’s great accomplishment was that he erased the distinctions between art and ideas, putting a positive, endgame value on long-term exploring over short-term arriving”
, art critic for the New York Times. Thoughts about the Louvre retrospective of Leonardo da Vinci and honoring the 500th anniversary of his death.
PARIS — To judge by the marketing hullabaloo, the Leonardo da Vinci retrospective that opens here Thursday at the Louvre should be the visual equivalent of a 21-gun salute and a trumpet-and-trombone choir. Blockbuster’s plastered all over it, and rightly so. Timed-ticket sales for its one-stop run are moving right along.
But the marvelous show you actually see, honoring the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death, is, tonally, some other thing: quieter, slower, better. It’s a succession of major painterly melodies set among ink-drawn pre-echoes and reverbs. It’s a confluence of presences and absences — art that’s there and some…
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“Establish enigmas, not explanations.”
“Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.”
“You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.”
“You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.”
Robert Anthony, author
“To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.”
“To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.”
“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake”
“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake”
Wallace Stevens , poet, “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction”, 1942.
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