“The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen”
― Milan Kundera, Immortality
I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
—-Tadao Ando
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
Tadao Ando,
Architect
“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe
“If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.”
― Lao Tzu
“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.”
― Carlos Castaneda
My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses’ gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better than I could pretend to make things move. For the pieces I make, the gesture is really more within the body, it’s like an internalized gesture, which is more about the content, the state of mind or of being at a given instant. And so it’s more like a painting…the gesture and the movement is all pretty much contained within the body.
—-Deborah Butterfield
Hina,
Deborah Butterfield
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
—-Alberto Giacometti
Four Figures (detail)
Stephan Balkenhol
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
“Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn’t tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn’t fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
“We keep to our usual stuff, more or less, only inside out. We do on stage the things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth
“At night I dream that you and I are two plants
that grew together, roots entwined,
and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth,
since we are made of earth and rain.”
― Pablo Neruda, Regalo de un Poeta
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Conjoined, Roxy Paine
Bill Chance 