me

“c’è qualcosa nell’arte, come nella natura, del resto, che ci rassicura, e qualcosa che invece, ci tormenta, ci turba. due sentimenti eterni in perenne lotta, la ricerca dell’ordine e il fascino del caos: dentro questa lotta abita l’uomo, e ci siamo noi, tutti, ordine e disordine. cerchiamo regole, forme, canoni, ma non cogliamo mai il reale funzionamento del mondo, è per gli uomini un eterno mistero… l’incapacità di risolvere questo mistero ci terrorizza, ci costringe a oscillare tra la ricerca di un’armonia impossibile e l’abbandono al caos…” 

“I had spent many years pursuing excellence…now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.” 

“i plan, i plan. i know where i want to go and i know what i want to do. at the same time i like to be open enough to forget it.” 

“the great ones do not set up offices, charge fees, give lectures, or write books. wisdom is silent, and the most effective propaganda for truth is the force of personal example. the great ones attract disciples, lesser figures whose mission is to preach and to teach. these are gospelers who, unequal to the highest task, spend their lives in converting others. the great ones are indifferent, in the profoundest sense. they don’t ask you to believe: they electrify you by their behavior. they are the awakeners. what you do with your petty life is of no concern to them. what you do with your life is only of concern to you, they seem to say. in short, their only purpose here on earth is to inspire. and what more can one ask of a human being than that?”

“the only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” 

“you’re going to die. you’re going to be dead. it could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. so am i. i mean, we’re just going to be gone. the world’s going to go on without us… you do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself, you decide for yourself.” 

Nietzche // “bisogna avere il caos dentro di sé per partorire una stella danzante” 

Leo Tolstoy // “Once we’re thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it’s only here that the new and the good begins.”

Janis Joplin // “To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is to not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.”

Ernest Hemingway // “When people talk, listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out, know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling. Try that for practice.” 

Jackson Pollock // “Something in me knows where I’m going.”

André Gide // “The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.”

“One should always be curious. Not a passive curiosity dependent upon information received, but an aggressive curiosity that compels one to seek things out and ascertain them for oneself.” 

Georgia O’Keeffe // “It’s not enough to be nice in life. You’ve got to have nerve.” 

Charles Bukowski // “Understand me…I do not have time for things that have no soul.”

bell hooks // “Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as means of escape.” >

Charles Bukowski // “Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them.” 

Sante Notarnicola//

“io 

a grande  maggioranza

mi sono eletto

senza discussioni

senza mediazioni

mi sono eletto

io

e basta

nel parlamento

dell’umanità

io

ho deciso

la mia vita.”

Henri Matisse // “Don’t try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.”