There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ~ Seneca
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Vincent Van Gogh ~ Skull With A Burning Cigarette, 1885
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If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it?
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| — | Franz Kafka (via nihilnoetia) (via booklover, nathanielstuart) |
Leonardo knew too much for a painter. It seems that painting his beautiful heads, he couldn’t free himself from the thought of the skull, the brain, the network of veins, of everything he learned from the autopsy of corpses. Shouldn’t a painter know only the skin of the world? At every step, Leonardo the painter was ambushed by Leonardo the anatomist. And hence the sad wisdom and the melancholy of knowledge in his paintings.
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Zbigniew Herbert, Leonardo’s Disquiet (via nybooks) :] |
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“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” — J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
not yet ending actually. this would be my last post before finally hitting the sack. promotion tomorrow :]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lcvjjiz9Rj1qbwkxuo1_400.jpg)
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)not yet ending actually. this would be my last post before finally hitting the sack. promotion tomorrow :]
