Frases LXXVI

Philipp Otto Runge, A Manhã (1808, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburgo)

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«O mundo torna-se sonho, o sonho torna-se mundo».

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Novalis,

in Luis Señor González, Dicionário de Citações e Provérbios, Correio da Manhã, 2004, p. 429.

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

Siphnos, Greece (1961)

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«Le photographie est, pour moi, l’impulsion spontanée d’une attention visuelle perpétuelle qui saisit l’instant et son éternité. Le dessin, lui, par sa graphologie élabore ce que notre conscience a saisi de cet instant. La photo est une action immédiate ; le dessin une méditation».

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Matisse and Doves (1944)

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Rue Mouffetard, Paris

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Joinville-le-Pont, France

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Martine's Legs (1967, via Henri Cartier-Bresson - Magnum Photos)

Espaço

Jorge Barradas, Casario – Barquinha (1922, Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Lisboa)

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«We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel,

But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the wheels depends.

We turn clay to make vessel,

But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the vessel depends.

We pierce doors and windows to make a house,

And it is on these spaces where there is nothing that the usefulness of the house depends.

Therefore just as we take advantage of what is, we should recognize the usefulness of what is not.»

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Lao-Tse (via Good Reads)

Com votos de boa semana!

Evert Pieters, Sommertag (1911-1914, Museum Barberini, Postdam)

Com votos de bom fim de semana!

Alfred Victor Fournier, The Beach (1909)