
Who The Fuck is Pete Doherty (2005)
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Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Who The Fuck is Pete Doherty (2005)
People
“It is precisely what he does not know which may destroy him.”
X magazine (1959-62)
Context: The Art of painting is itself an intensely personal activity. It may be labouring the obvious to say so but it is too little recognised in art journalism now that a picture is a unique and private event in the life of the painter: an object made alone with a man and a blank canvas... A real painting is something which happens to the painter once in a given minute; it is unique in that it will never happen again and in this sense is an impossible object. It is judged by the painter simply as a success or failure without qualification. And it is something which happens in life not in art: a picture which was merely the product of art would not be very interesting and could tell us nothing we were not already aware of. The old saying, “what you don’t know can’t hurt you”, expresses the opposite idea to that which animates the painter before his canvas. It is precisely what he does not know which may destroy him.
Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York (1895)
On the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument (1843)
Context: Spain stooped on South America, like a vulture on its prey. Every thing was force. Territories were acquired by fire and sword. Cities were destroyed by fire and sword. Hundreds of thousands of human beings fell by fire and sword. Even conversion to Christianity was attempted by fire and sword.
“Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations
“Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations
“Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.”
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha