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(Calle del Desengãno) Street of Disillusion

Jan 17 1973

"Hence it is that a judgement may be formed of a man's character from his dress, his house, his furniture. Nature forms us, but we transform her work; and this very metamorphosis becomes a second nature. Placed in a vast universe, Man forms for himself a little separate world which he fortifies, limits, arranges according to his own fancy, and in which his image is easily traced." Goethe

-from Goyas Caprichos by Lopeg-Rey - p68 Vol 1

Wisdom comes from failure

"like a cool breath on the back of the neck"

Essence comes only after existence. Sartre

Many people have talent, but the Artist must be possessed. He must be possessed to fine new dimensions. -Dean Renior

Hindu singing: "When they sing, their song is like a hanging. They sing only to hang

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themselves, and high. They make straight for the most inaccessible notes, with out a springboard, hang on in despair..."

Henri Mikhaux "A Barbarian in Asia"

W.H. Auden - Epistle to a Godson 1972 p17-18

I am not a camera

"Photographable life is always either trivial or already sterilized"

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

To call our sight Vision implies that, to us All objects are subjects

What we have not named or beheld as a symbol escapes our notice.

We never look at two people or one person twice in the same way.

It is very rude to take close-ups and, except when enraged, we don't: