kiss

richard picasso picasso peter david bethany: permanent light

you have been here sometime

at

LAMA

photo:

bethany nauert

richard dorso:

the collection

of

brilliant.

congratulations

on a job

well

done,

mr. john:

gorgeous. all.

physics

When I read a book

on Einstein's physics of which

I understood nothing,

it doesn't matter:

that

will make me

understand

something else.

-picasso

the intention of doing

some people wake up & first thing in the morning

they center themselves: prayer, meditation, some sort

of devotion. a handful of my closest friends do this. i often

intend to. it takes five minutes, maybe ten. (or a bit more.)

not much time. but the people who practice it, those i know-

that bit of time they spend- it's clear that that time changes

their lives. (it's in their eyes; a peace others don't have. it's

in their lives, too. but that's another story.)

in the latest issue of rolling stone, the dalai lama mentions

this practice (it's something he has talked about often-

there's a good interview in the magazine).

devotion. & to something bigger.

to live it, though?

how, exactly?

not

just to intend

to live it.

somewhere in madrid saw an english translation (post

title) of something picasso said. tracked it down here.

more (Pablo Picasso to Marius de Zayus) follows:

"In art intentions are not sufficient

and, as we say in Spanish:

love must be proved by facts

and not by reasons.

What one does is what counts,

and not what one has the intention of doing."

(brought to these thoughts today by this)

stones: saint-germain-en-laye, july '11

shape

via

ue:

What do you think an artist is?

…he is a political being,

constantly aware

of the heart breaking,

passionate,

or delightful things that happen in the world,

shaping himself completely in their image.

Painting is not done

to decorate apartments.

It is an instrument of war.

Pablo Picasso

(here

is a jeweler if ever there was one.

finding ways to

set words & pictures in

evermore

exquisite

forms.)

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