“Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together they compose the world. One world, made up of all things. One divinity, present in them all.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
“In Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks, we read: "An oyster opens wide at full moon. When the crab sees this, it throws a pebble or a twig at the oyster to keep it from closing and thus have it to feed upon." Da Vinci adds the following suitable moral to this fable: "Like the mouth that, in telling its secret, places itself at the mercy of an indiscreet listener.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
“I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.”
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“(...) even if we do not take things seriously, even if we keep an ironical distance, we are still doing them.”
― The Sublime Object of Ideology
― The Sublime Object of Ideology
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