The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable. –Marcel Proust, The Maxims of Marcel Proust (ed. 1948) Proust certainly knew […]| Redtree Times
In my solitude I sing to myself a sweet lullaby, as sweet as my mother used to sing to me. –Albert Cohen, The Book of My Mother (1954) Today’s post is kind of like a poker hand. I have a pair of Cohens and a wild card in the form of a new painting. The […]| Redtree Times
But the Wise Perceive Things About to Happen “For the gods perceive future things,ordinary people things in the present, butthe wise perceive things about to happen.” –Philostratos, Life of Apollonios of Tyana, viii, 7. Ordinary people know what’s happening now,the gods know future thingsbecause they alone are totally enlightened.Of what’s to come the wise perceivethings […]| Redtree Times