Édouard Manet (1832-1883) - Boating, 1874
'Illusion is the first of all pleasures.'
Oscar Wilde
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Showing posts with label Wilde. Show all posts
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Thursday, December 06, 2007
The Gee Gees
Gilbert & George cutout dolls, 2000
Tim Marlow with Gilbert & George, 2007
N.B. Gilbert & George will be awarded the Lorenzo il Magnifico Prize at the Florence Biennale in December.
'Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.'
Oscar Wilde
N.B. Gilbert & George will be awarded the Lorenzo il Magnifico Prize at the Florence Biennale in December.
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
And Yet So Far Away
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau - The Eiffel Tower, 1898
'When good Americans die they go to Paris.'
'When good Americans die they go to Paris.'
Oscar Wilde
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
The Downside Of Knowing Thyself
Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) - Study of Truncated Limbs, c. 1818
"Biography lends to death a new terror."
"Biography lends to death a new terror."
Oscar Wilde
Monday, April 30, 2007
See Paris And Sigh
Brassaï (1899-1984) - Foggy Paris, 1934
'A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.'
'A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.'
Oscar Wilde
Saturday, April 07, 2007
I See Red
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - The Red Studio, 1911
'Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.'
'Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.'
Oscar Wilde
Monday, January 29, 2007
Render Unto Ceasar
Barbara Kruger (b. 1945) - I shop therefore I am, 1990
"I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."
"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either."
"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."
"There are people who have money and people who are rich."
"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
"It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."
"When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life: now that I'm old I know it is."
"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may be said to be living apart."
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."
Mark Twain
"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either."
Robert Graves
"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."
Pablo Picasso
"There are people who have money and people who are rich."
Coco Chanel
"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
Woody Allen
"It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
Albert Camus
"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."
Voltaire
"When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life: now that I'm old I know it is."
Oscar Wilde
"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may be said to be living apart."
e. e. cummings
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."
Dorothy Parker
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
The Oscar For Best Quote
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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Biography lends to death a new terror."
"Wisdom comes with winters."
"One's real life is often the life that one does not lead."
"Only the shallow know themselves."
"I love acting. It so much more real than life."
"Biography lends to death a new terror."
"Wisdom comes with winters."
"One's real life is often the life that one does not lead."
"Only the shallow know themselves."
"I love acting. It so much more real than life."
Oscar Wilde
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
La Rocoquette
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) - The Swing, 1766
"Fragonard's scenes of frivolity and gallantry are considered the embodiment of the Rococo spirit. A pupil of Chardin and later Boucher, he won the Prix de Rome and from 1756 to 1761 was in Italy, where he developed a particular admiration for Tiepolo and the late Baroque style. In this period he specialized in large historical paintings.
Returning to Paris, he soon changed this style, adopting instead the erotic subjects then in vogue and for which he is chiefly known, of which The Swing is the most famous.
This picture became an immediate success, not merely for its technical excellence, but for the scandal behind it. The young nobleman is not only getting an interesting view up the lady's skirt, but she is being pushed into this position by her priest-lover, shown in the rear.
In this same spirit are some other famous pictures, The See-Saw, Blindman's Bluff, The Stolen Kiss, and The Meeting. After his marriage in 1769, he began painting children and family scenes (usually called genre painting) and even returned to religious subjects. He stopped exhibiting publicly in 1770 and all his later works are commissions from private patrons.
To many, this painting embodies the entire spirit of the ancien regime on the eve of the revolution."
(Boston College Website)
"Fragonard's scenes of frivolity and gallantry are considered the embodiment of the Rococo spirit. A pupil of Chardin and later Boucher, he won the Prix de Rome and from 1756 to 1761 was in Italy, where he developed a particular admiration for Tiepolo and the late Baroque style. In this period he specialized in large historical paintings.
Returning to Paris, he soon changed this style, adopting instead the erotic subjects then in vogue and for which he is chiefly known, of which The Swing is the most famous.
This picture became an immediate success, not merely for its technical excellence, but for the scandal behind it. The young nobleman is not only getting an interesting view up the lady's skirt, but she is being pushed into this position by her priest-lover, shown in the rear.
In this same spirit are some other famous pictures, The See-Saw, Blindman's Bluff, The Stolen Kiss, and The Meeting. After his marriage in 1769, he began painting children and family scenes (usually called genre painting) and even returned to religious subjects. He stopped exhibiting publicly in 1770 and all his later works are commissions from private patrons.
To many, this painting embodies the entire spirit of the ancien regime on the eve of the revolution."
(Boston College Website)
"Pleasure is the object, duty and goal of all rational creatures."
"The essence of pleasure is spontaneity."
"Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hope of new pleasure, is it worthwhile to dress and undress?"
"The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all."
"I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain."
"All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenues."
"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
"Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And it is not our acceptance of it that is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments."
"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."
"Men seldom give pleasure where they are not pleased themselves."
Voltaire
"The essence of pleasure is spontaneity."
Germaine Greer
"Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hope of new pleasure, is it worthwhile to dress and undress?"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain."
Thomas Jefferson
"All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenues."
Jonathan Swift
"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
Aristotle
"Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And it is not our acceptance of it that is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."
Oscar Wilde
"Men seldom give pleasure where they are not pleased themselves."
Samuel Johnson
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Signatures Of The Soul
Jenny Saville (b. 1970) - Reverse, 2003
"The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which have become permanent."
Marcel Proust
"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."
Oscar Wilde
"You use a glass mirror to see your face. You use works of art to see your soul."
George Bernard Shaw
"Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?"
Pablo Picasso
"I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several."
Rainer Maria Rilke
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