Featured Poem

"If you should ask me where I've been all this time
I have to say "Things happen."
I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth,
on the river ruined in its own duration:
I know nothing save things the birds have lost,
the sea I left behind, or my sister crying.
Why this abundance of places? Why does day lock
with day? Why the dark night swilling round
in our mouths? And why the dead?"
-Pablo Neruda

Featured Painting

In the Car
Roy Lichtenstein

America

"America is the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else."
-Gore Vidal

Peace Without Freedom

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
-Malcolm X

Governments

The most important crime for any political system to avoid is hypocrisy.

Life

"There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue."

-Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Koons

I featured Koons without one of his works.



Stacked

The Importance of Art

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
-Leonardo

Luxury Degradation

"The advertising industry uses abstraction and luxury to, eventually bring in degradation to whoever they're targeting in this life; you take their economical and political power from them."
-Jeff Koons

May

It's May. Live what you say.
-AMBITUDO A MORTIS-