The Antelucan Hourglass

An INTP Aquarian born in the last few days of a Rooster / 鸡 year.

I AM AN ENTHUSIAST.

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Primarily an art blog, but also including posts on history, travel, food, botanicals, architecture, literature, music...

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I never met a color I didn't like. - Dale Chihuly

You don't take a photograph, you make it. - Ansel Adams

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Nietzsche

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. - Georgia O'Keeffe

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. - Paul Gauguin

I paint with shapes. - Alexander Calder

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. - Michelangelo

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. - Marc Chagall

Color is a power which directly influences the soul. - Wassily Kandinsky

I have always wanted my colors to sing. - Paul Delvaux

Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet. - Paul Klee

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. - Pablo Picasso

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. - Marcel Duchamp

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. - Henry David Thoreau

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. - Leonardo da Vinci

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. - Lewis Carroll

Intellect confuses intuition. - Piet Mondrian

From William Decker’s contemporary staging of La Traviata at the 2005 Salzburg Festival.

Anna Netrobko in a magnificent performance of the Sempre Libera aria. (even if she plays it safe at the end)

Lyrics:

Violetta:
Sempre libera degg´io
folleggiare di gioia in gioia,
vo´che scorra il viver mio
pei sentieri del piacer.
Nasca il giorno, o il giorno muoia,
sempre lieta ne´ ritrovi,
a diletti sempre nuovi
dee volare il mio pensier

Alfredo:
Amor è palpito dell´universo intero,
misterioso, altero,
croce e delizia al cor.

Violetta:
Oh! Oh! Amore!
Follie! Gioir!

English Translation
Violetta:
Free and aimless I frolic
From joy to joy,
Flowing along the surface
of life’s path as I please.
As the day is born,
Or as the day dies,
Happily I turn to the new delights
That make my spirit soar.

Alfredo:
Love is a heartbeat throughout the universe,
mysterious, altering,
the torment and delight of my heart.

Violetta:
Oh! Oh! Love!
Madness! Euphoria!