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"Freedom means strangement from all those ideological nodes, myths, religious rites, cultural prejudice, traditional interpretations, lodged in language without any criticism and inertially passed on through paideía and social practice."

Emilio Lledó

  "Epicureanism"

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Art is beautiful, it gives a lot work, though

Karl Valentin

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What a luxury, to enjoy nuances.

Alex Grijelmo

Juan Gelman

Eternity is a violent idea
capitalist
accumulating future

Juan Gelman

1930-2014

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A writer is not an intellectual, (s)he is a sentimental.

Gabriel García Márquez

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La peinture est l'art d'aller à l'âme par l'entremise des yeux; et si l'effet s'arrète aux yeux, l'artiste n'a fait que la moindre partie du chemin.

Denis Diderot, Essais su la peinture (1796)

Painting is the art of getting to the soul through the eyes; and if the effect stops at the eyes, the artist has only made the smallest part of the way.

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"It's good that we're different, so that there can be exchange"

Jaume Plensa, 100% artist

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"Art is not self-expression


It is the self expressing all of the elements of the culture that has shaped it. We filter the ambient information that surrounds us-from our families, from our communities, from the information that bombards us every day from myriad sources. We do not create this information; it helps to create us. We in turn start to interpret it and describe it to ourselves and to others as a means to understand it. This is the art impulse. Even works of pure imagination have sources outside of ourselves. Know your sources."

from "101 things to learn in Art School" by Kit White

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You're talking to a girl who's had the bad taste of growing up

Ana María Matute, writer

Gianni Rodari and Book Day

Excerpt from "The Grammar of Fantasy. An introduction to the art of inventing stories", by Gianni Rodari

What an unexpected find on Book Day,  M. Gianni Rodari.

Maybe this excerpt from the first chapter is a good explanation why I called this blog las palabras mágicas / the magical  words, (which is at any rate absolutely ridiculous, as this is a visual blog), probably  just because a different language will produce different waves.

There is so much debate out there these days about the  electronic versus paper version question: sociological, business, industry discussions that cannot hide the fact that we just can't do without the stories.




 

A quote for one world

Football is an incomparable social phenomenon. It's the most universal language of all. There are more people who speak the language of football than speakers of Spanish or English. On every continent, football is a global phenomenon that manages to bring together people of different races, cultures and religions.

José Mourinho, soccer coach


And so is  art , las palabras mágicas thought

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Technique can see progress, not so art

Lionello Venturi

as quoted by Louis Cattiaux in Physics and Metaphysics of Painting

Buying and selling according to Khalil Gibran

And a merchant said, speak to us of buying and selling.

And he answered and said:

To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands.

It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied.

Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

When in the market place you toilers of the sea and fields and vineyards meet the weavers and the potters and the gatherers of spices, -

Invoke then the master spirit of the earth, to come into your midst and sanctify the scales and the reckoning that weighs value against value.

And suffer not the barren-handed to take part in your transactions, who would sell their words for your labour.

To such men you should say,

"Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net;

For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us."

And if there come the singers and the dancers and the flute players, - buy of their gifts also.

For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and food for your soul.

And before you leave the marketplace, see that no one has gone his way with empty hands.

For the master spirit of the earth shall not sleep peacefully upon the wind till the needs of the least of you are satisfied. 

Khalil Gibran

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The world needs truth, and poetry helps to transmit it



Silvia Nieva
Melintres

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Quote on blogging...and everything else:


The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources ;)

Albert Einstein

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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.


Goethe

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the curved line is the loveliest distance between two points...

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aaall creation is a fight against ugliness, cruelty and death

John Malkovich

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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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how many dragons are there in your life?

There's at least half a doze in mine