Nov 20, 2006 22:27
"a certain blue of the ocean is so blue that only blood would be more red."
"what could be further from us than the strange claim of a Leonardo to whom painting was a supreme goal and the ultimate demonstration of knowledge? Leonardo was convinced that painting demanded universal knowledge, and he did not even shrink from a theoretical analysis which to us is stunning because of its very depth and precision."
"Works of art are always the products of a danger incurred, of an experience pursued to the end, to the point where man can no longer continue."
"We, we infinitely risked."
"We must first understand that this red under my eyes is not, as is always said, a 'quale', a pellicle of being without thickness, a message at the same time indecipherable and evident, which one has or has not received, but of which, if one has received it, one knows all there is to know, and of which in the end there is nothing to say."
"Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of ART to TRUTH seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance."