Sorrow
Posted on March 21st, 2008 by attentiontolife
Le Retable de la Pietà
Louis Brea, 1475, Eglise des Franciscans de Cimiez, Nice, France
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Words
Posted on March 20th, 2008 by attentiontolife
When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his work, and so he often wrote better than he could write; Bach composed more deeply, more truly than he knew; Rembrandt’s brush put more of the human spirit on canvas than [...]
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Words
Posted on March 12th, 2008 by attentiontolife
Meaning is different from happiness. Included in meaning is poverty and other unhappy states…Our greatest desire, greater even than the desire for happiness, is that our lives mean something. This desire for meaning is the originating impulse of story. We tell stories because we hope to find or create significant connections between [...]
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