Às estrelas

Sevilha, Azulejo de padrão (1501-1550, Museu Nacional de Arqueologia)

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Estevão de Sousa, Colar (1865, Palácio Nacional da Ajuda)

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Camille Corot, The evening star (1864, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore)

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“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

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Marco Aurélio.

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Vincent Van Gogh, The Starry Night (1889, Museum of Modern Art, Nova Iorque)

 - este foi acrescentado depois de ver o blogue Ponto Aqui! Ponto Acolá!. Não estava inicialmente, porque já cá estivera no Natal de 2009.

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Konstantin Bogaevsky, Stars (1922)

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Jean Arp, The star

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Alexander Calder, The star (1960)

Um (difícil?) exercício

Jean Arp, The dream (1937)

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CLEANING PIECE III

Try to say nothing negative about anybody.

a) for three days

b) for forty-five days

c) for three months

See what happens to your life. 

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Yoko Ono ( via Brain Pickings)

Da incerteza (ou do acaso)

Jean Arp, Collage with Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance (1917)

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«That soldier was called Ludwig Wittgenstein, the man who set the limits on our thoughts. The enigma that he tried to decipher was the following: Can we know the truth? All the great thinkers throughout history have sought a single certainty, something which no one can refute, like "two and two make four". In order to find that truth, Wittgenstein used, in fact, mathematical logic. What better means of obtaining a certainty than an immutable language, free from the passions of men? He advanced slowly, using equation after equation, with impeccable method, until he reached a terrifying conclusion. There is no such truth outside of mathematics. There is no way of finding a single absolute truth, an irrefutable argument which might help answer the questions of mankind.»

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The Oxford Murders (2008)