Observations of a One-eyed Man
That beast astray who finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible
“I cannot understand what pleasures and joys they are that drive people to the overcrowded railways and hotels, into the packed cafés with the suffocating […]
When human beings are transformed into commodities, what can their conversation be but trivial?
Indeed, when human beings are transformed into commodities, what can their conversation be but trivial? Would commodities on the market, if they could speak, not […]
Their faith is not strong enough to believe in the fertile possibilities of man without shutting their eyes
The “realists” believe, of those who strive for kindness, that these latter mean well but that they are ingenuous, full of illusions—briefly, fools. And they […]
Intellectual yokel
A philosopher, which is what I am supposed to be, is a sort of intellectual yokel who gapes and stares at what sensible people take […]
The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind
I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture, but I had not made it worth any one’s while to buy them. […]
… and it just doesn’t matter, we have not loved life.
“I have been photographing the United States trying by investigating photographically to learn who we are and how we feel, but seeing what we look […]
The artist is not born to a life of pleasure. He must not live idle.
It is very important for the artist to gauge his position aright, to realize that he has a duty to his art and to himself, […]
Absence is not Vacancy (black and white photograph)
Absence is not vacancy. Vacancy has no voice. Vacancy is empty and banal and atheistic. Absence, on the other hand, is a fertile ground where […]
The neurotic and the artist
“The neurotic fails through incessant vacillation. The artist succeeds in giving shape and form to the conflict and ejects truth and beauty.” – Otto Rank […]