« Je suis le rivage et l’océan, en l’attente de moi-même de part et d’autre. »
“I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides.”
― Dejan Stojanovic
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Étiquette : identity
“Ce que le public te reproche, cultive-le. C’est toi.”
“What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.”
― Jean Cocteau
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“Nul homme ne peut pendant très longtemps se montrer un visage à lui-même et en présenter un autre au reste du monde sans finir par s’y perdre et se demander lequel des deux est le vrai.”
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Il nous faut oser être nous-mêmes, tout effrayant ou étrange que cela puisse se révéler.”
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton
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Video by Matteo Frittelli – Anish Kapoor | Descension for Galleria Continua, 2015
In this interview realised for a recent solo show in Italy, the British artist Anish Kapoor presents his views on what art and artists are. He draws a parallel with a journey « to discover something » which has to provoke a reflection through (maybe unconsciously) philosophical questions, inducing poetry and beyond.
Interestingly, he also makes a distinction between artworks and what those works really are, the same way our own identity cannot be simply resumed in the body we live in.
« If you think of ourselves, our bodies as an object, we occupy ourselves but I know I’m not just this. I think the same is true of all these things that we reflect upon as art. It’s a very special condition but in art there is this possibility of the object being something else. » ― Anish Kapoor
This refers to concepts such as identity, ego and the fundamental question of who we are, as explored by several generations of philosophers and psychologists. I will not initiate a never ending lecture that will cause more confusion than clarification. I will just repeat what the writer Eckhart Tolle wrote in one of his recent works, offering a very contemporary and accessible synthesis of Eastern spiritual teaching and old traditions…
“You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.” ― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life’s Purpose
Source : http://www.galleriacontinua.com/
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“Soyez vous-même. Tous les autres sont déjà pris.”
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde
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« What does a mirror look at? »
« Que regarde un miroir? »
― Frank Herbert
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