“If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.”
― Lao Tzu
Tag Archives: Art
Real Horses Move So Much Better
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
A Faint Image Of What I See
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
Like a Reflection in a Fun House Mirror
“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
Every Exit Being An Entrance Somewhere Else
“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
You And I Are Two Plants That Grew Together
“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
Beauty in Our Time
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
—-Tadao Ando
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Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth
Tadao Ando, Architect
Slicing Out This Moment and Freezing It
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
― Susan Sontag
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
Fort Worth, Texas
I Want My Fifteen Minutes
“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
He Will Kill Himself With Climbing
“And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number.”
― H. Rider Haggard, She
Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Martin Puryear
Modern Art Musuem of Fort Woth
“Tell him to seek the stars and he will kill himself with climbing.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
Ladder for Booker T. Washington
Martin Puryear
Modern Art Musuem of Fort Woth
Bill Chance 