“Looking from outside into an open window one never sees as much as when one looks through a closed window. There is nothing more profound, more mysterious, more pregnant, more insidious, more dazzling than a window lighted by a single candle. What one can see out in the sunlight is always less interesting than what goes on behind a windowpane. In that black or luminous square life lives, life dreams, life suffers.”
― Charles Baudelaire
Window washing job I couldn’t do
Downtown Dallas, Texas
“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.”
― Lao Tzu
Dallas, Texas
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Taken through the window of an architecture firm, downtown Dallas, Texas
“She didn’t need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida
Adolphus Hotel
Dallas, Texas
“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Adolphus Hotel
Dallas, Texas
“When I ask how old your toddler is, I don’t need to hear ’27 months.’ ‘He’s two’ will do just fine. He’s not a cheese. And I didn’t really care in the first place.”
― George Carlin
Sculptureson the exterior of the Adolphus Hotel, Dallas, Texas
Photograph taken during the Dallas Photo Walk.
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
“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
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
—-Tadao Ando
(click to enlarge)
Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth
Tadao Ando, Architect
“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”
― Andy Warhol
Self Portrait
Andy Warhol
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Fort Worth, Texas
Bill Chance 