“Avē Imperātor, moritūrī tē salūtant” —doomed participants in Roman circus events“Aut nōn” — the emperor in reply Yes, this drawing is based on the 1872 painting Pollice Verso (Thumbs Turned) by French pop-academicist… Continue reading
This drawing is just one of those ideas—AGAIN!—that happens spontaneously while doing something else requiring little concentration—in this case, journaling—allowing enough mental space for ideas like this to congeal into an image quite… Continue reading
“Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait.” —Guillermo del Toro It’s lizards and aliens now, but when it was just… Continue reading
“What a man is begins to betray itself when his talent decreases—when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is finery; finery, too, is a hiding place.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche I… Continue reading
“Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of the established reality principle” —Controversial 20th-century philosopher Herbert… Continue reading
“Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of youth, of illusions, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald IF… Continue reading
“Depression is melancholy minus its charms” —Susan Sontag I wake up, that’s good. I can get out of bed, also good. The room is warm and quiet, I can drink my coffee and… Continue reading
“’I am too big to climb and play,’ said the boy. ‘I want to buy things and have fun. I want some money. Can you give me some money?’” ―Shel Silverstein, “The Giving… Continue reading
No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap. —poet Juvenal Rising above a storm-tossed sea of hands and symbolic ephemerals are three columns, one each of the three Greek… Continue reading
“The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone. Instead of growing more sensible in death, the inhabitants of the cemetery were sillier than they had been in life.” ―Milan Kundera People have been memorializing… Continue reading
