"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit. "Constantin Brancusi:
Musing: adjective 1. absorbed in thought; meditative. noun 2. contemplation; reflection.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
finding reality
"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit. "Constantin Brancusi:
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