Saturday, August 04, 2007

She Comes In Colours: Part Four




Sarah Lucas - Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab, 1992

Friday, August 03, 2007

She Comes In Colours: Part Three




Lucian Freud - Naked Girl, 1968

Thursday, August 02, 2007

She Comes In Colours: Part Two




Egon Schiele - Nude, 1910

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

She Comes In Colours: Part One




François Boucher - Marie-Louise O'Murphy, c. 1752

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Tales Of Horological Madness




Clock Face (Alice in Wonderland)


'The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.'

Albert Einstein

Monday, July 30, 2007

Games Of Truth And Chance




Blogopoly Board


'I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.'

Albert Einstein

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Ask Questions First




Piet Mondrian - Tableau No. IV; Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow, and Black, c. 1924/1925


'We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.'

Albert Einstein

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Shoot Later




Jasper Johns - Green Target, 1955


'If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.'

Albert Einstein

Friday, July 27, 2007

When The Wheel Was Square




Kasimir Malevich - Red Square, 1915


'If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.'

Albert Einstein

Thursday, July 26, 2007

There's Nothing Simple About Simplicity




Kalachakra Sand Mandala


'Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.'

Albert Einstein

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

In A Galaxy Not So Far Away...




Venus


'Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.'

(Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

The Door To Paradise Is Not Always Open




Lorenzo Ghiberti - Adam and Eve, Gates of Paradise, 1425-52


'An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.'

Victor Hugo

Monday, July 23, 2007

A View Of The Biggest Room Of All




Claude Monet - Le Bassin d'Argenteuil, 1872


'A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.'

Marcel Proust

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Part of Us Will Always Remain Unspoken



Henry Fuseli - The Silence, 1799-1801


'Silence is the wit of fools.'

Anatole France

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Strange Days Are These




Paul Gustave Doré - Canto XII, Purgatory, The Divine Comedy (Dante), 1857


'Hell is empty and all the devils are here.'

William Shakespeare

Friday, July 20, 2007

Eternity Weeps When You Cut It In Half




Anselm Kiefer - Everyone Stands Under His Own Dome of Heaven, 1970




Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix - Dante and Virgil in Hell, 1822


'Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.'

Mark Twain

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Bleed Me An Ocean




Andres Serrano - Bloodstream, 1987


'The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.'

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

The Gods At Play




Jesus action figure


'Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.'

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Scepticism Is Money In The Bank




René Descartes on the 100F note


'Doubt grows with knowledge.'

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Monday, July 16, 2007

The Neverending Moment




Edward Hopper - Hotel Lobby, 1943


'Few people have the imagination for reality.'

Johann Wolfgang Goethe