The world is comedy to those who think, but a tragedy to those who feel. - Horace Walpole (renversé pour l'instant)

"We are here to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know."

- W.H. Auden.

Barcelone / Picasso

Après avoir visité Barcelone, et le musée de Picasso, quelques petites notes.


Please, oh please, read Fyodor Dostoyevsky, read Crime & Punishment, for it's a marvelous book; but I need you to read it, most of all and regardless of its beauty, to confirm that Pablo Picasso has painted something which is so similar to an image described in a scene in C&P, a fantastic painting. Je l'ai cherché sur internet mais je l'ai pas trouvé. Ca me souvient d'une belle citation de Picasso:

"Je ne cherche pas, je trouve."

Demande-moi si tu veux le voir! J'ai acheté une carte postale de ce tableau. Phénoménal.

Quelque chose d'autre. Comment c'est possible pour Picasso de pouvoir déménager en France facilement comme ça, sans problèmes de barrière de la langue? Il me semble qu'aujourd'hui ils existent plus de barrières qu'avant, quand les artistes, les poètes, ils voyagaient aux autres pays sans problèmes du tout. Whereas nowadays it's not obligatory anymore to learn any language other than English, which is also exactly the mentality of the people, because of which they lose all sense of beauty in other languages and even in English.

I hope I will never stop learning languages.

Prose for the beat generation

"But then they danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centrelight pop and everybody goes Awww!" - Jack Kerouac

Those are the ones, the only ones.

"Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened."

- Clea Lawrence Durrell