December 2009
13 posts
“I’m not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but...”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
“For no one attracted her more; his hands were beautiful, and his feet, and his...”
– Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse
“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
– G. K. Chesterton
Handke. →
On a small sheet of headed notepaper, four lines in biro and my handwriting:
Peter Handke
Collection Vol. 1
Kasper
The Ride Across Lake Constance
The name, “Peter Handke” is boxed with an…
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum: A Novel
cities:
‘We are too unobservant or too self-centred to fathom one another. Anyone who has seen masks at a ball, dancing amicably together, and holding hands without recognizing one another, only to part a moment later, and neither to meet again nor miss one another, can form a conception of the world at large.’
— Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues, ‘Reflections and Maxims’