Section 2, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part II
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
1950s
Source: Sergei Eisenstein (1957), Film form [and]: The film sense, p. 127.
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 169
Context: This māyā, that is to say, the ego, is like a cloud. The sun cannot be seen on account of a thin patch of cloud; when that disappears one sees the sun. If by the grace of the guru one's ego vanishes, then one sees God.
“Sorrow, like a cloud on the sun, shades the soul of Clessammor.”
"Carthon"
The Poems of Ossian
Source: Islands in the Net (1988), Chapter 1 (p. 16)
“I find it hard to sit still in one spot, and impossible to sit still in two spots.”
short notation, 1881: from 'Notes inedites de Seurat sur Delacroix', in 'Bulletin de la Vie Artistique', April 1922; as quoted by John Rewald, in Georges Seurat', a monograph https://ia800607.us.archive.org/23/items/georges00rewa/georges00rewa.pdf; Wittenborn and Compagny, New York, 1943. p. 6 - note 9
Seurat studied carefully the paintings of Eugene Delacroix, and wrote in 1881 about Delacroix's painting 'The Fanatics of Tangier' https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_The_Fanatics_of_Tangier_-_WGA06195.jpg this notation
Quotes, 1881 - 1890
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade
“These are the clouds about the fallen sun,
The majesty that shuts his burning eye.”
These Are The Clouds http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1715/
The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
Context: Have you made greatness your companion,
Although it be for children that you sigh:
These are the clouds about the fallen sun,
The majesty that shuts his burning eye.
“Spot the falsehood of history and find out the truth.”
The Spartan Lies.
