“…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
― Vincent van Gogh
Vortex
Richard Serra
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Nature and Art
Tag Archives: Sculpture
Expensively Set Into A Smooth Dome
“Phyllida’s hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band shell for the presentation of that long-running act, her face.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
Dragon Park,
Dallas, Texas
All Things Were Older Than Man
“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Design District
Dallas, Texas
To Be Really Greek One Should Have No Clothes
“To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.”
― Oscar Wilde, Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Houston Museum Of Fine Arts
Teach Him What He Does Not Want To Learn
“A responsible Warrior is not someone who takes the weight of the world on his shoulders, but someone who has learned to deal with the challenges of the moment.”
― Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light
Design District
Dallas, Texas
“The Warrior knows that no man is an island.
He cannot fight alone; whatever his plan, he depends on other people. He needs to discuss his strategy, to ask for help, and, in moments of relaxation, to have someone with whom he can sit by the fire, someone he can regale with tales of battle.”“Then the Warrior realizes that these repeated experiences have but one aim: to teach him what he does not want to learn.”
― Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light
Was This Thing Really Him?
“Samsa looked down in dismay at his naked body. How ill-formed it was! Worse than ill-formed. It possessed no means of self-defense. Smooth white skin (covered by only a perfunctory amount of hair) with fragile blue blood vessels visible through it; a soft, unprotected belly; ludicrous, impossibly shaped genitals; gangly arms and legs (just two of each!); a scrawny, breakable neck; an enormous, misshapen head with a tangle of stiff hair on its crown; two absurd ears, jutting out like a pair of seashells. Was this thing really him? Could a body so preposterous, so easy to destroy (no shell for protection, no weapons for attack), survive in the world?”
― Haruki Murakami, Samsa in Love
Dragon Park, Dallas, Texas
Bring On the Dancing Horses
Billy stands
All alone
Sinking sand
Skin and bone
Bring on the dancing horses
Wherever they may roam
—-Echo & the Bunnymen, Bring On the Dancing Horses
Design District
Dallas, Texas
Like A Big Ol’ Dinosaur
James Dean in a Mercury ’49
Junior Johnson’s runnin’ in the woods of Caroline
Even Burt Reynolds in a black Trans Am
All gonna meet down at the Cadillac ranch
—-Bruce Springsteen, Cadillac Ranch
Old Guys Rule
Cadillac Ranch
Amarillo, Texas
Cadillac, Cadillac
Long and dark
Shiny and black
Open up your engines, let ’em roar
Tearin’ up the highway like a big ol’ dinosaur
—-Bruce Springsteen, Cadillac Ranch
To Make Something Happen
“That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women
Design District,
Dallas, Texas
The Tyranny Of Petty Things
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.
—-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Charles Umlauf
Spirit of Flight
Love Field
Dallas, Texas
Bill Chance 