“The elements of architecture are not visual units or gestalt; they are encounters, confrontations that interact with memory.”
― The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
― The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
“..would I have had a different life
failing this embrace with broken things,
iridescent veins, ecstatic bullets, small cracks
in the brain, would I know these particular facts,
how a phrase scars a cheek, how water
dries love out, this, a thought as casual
as any second eviscerates a breath.”
― thirsty
failing this embrace with broken things,
iridescent veins, ecstatic bullets, small cracks
in the brain, would I know these particular facts,
how a phrase scars a cheek, how water
dries love out, this, a thought as casual
as any second eviscerates a breath.”
― thirsty
“According to Beckett's or Kafka's law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.”
― Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
― Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
“…..in that blurred state between awake and asleep when too many intake valves are open in the soul. Like the terrestial crust of the earth which is proportionately 10 times thinner than an eggshell, the skin of the soul is a miracle of mutual pressures. Millions of kilograms of force pounding up from earth’s core on the inside to meet the cold air of the world and stop as we do, just in time.”
― Autobiography of Red
― Autobiography of Red
“The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.”
― Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
― Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
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