Comments on: Excerpts cocktail…

By: iondanu

iondanu — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:52:08 +0000

Nu stiu, efectiv, daca e somnul ratizunii care naste monstrii, Ovidiu… Poate ca tocmai luciditatea ne face sa-i vedem? Cred ca sloganul lui /goya prea e luat ca de la sine înțeles…

By: ovidiu stanomir

ovidiu stanomir — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:17:40 +0000

“somnul ratiunii…”

By: iondanu

iondanu — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:27:25 +0000

Hey, naynay! (Hi wasn’t a good rhyme to it)…

When I did this (or more precisely when I finished it, because at first it was just a mass of different colors pelle-melle) I was almost in a sort of transe, I think… If you look in the left upper corner I’ve signed there so, the image is (was) upside down… but I look at it and it seemed to me better this way… I don’t know why, really, fangs and eyes and monsters seems to populate my small world… But I agree, this is not a bad drawing=painting…

By: Naynay

Naynay — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:55:48 +0000

Personally I think this is a tremendous drawing, oscillating as a cascade punctuated by strange awareness of metaphysical diversity, but then it is all the same just one. Just when you think you got the idea, the mystery involved in the tessillation of fear and wonder seems to flow over and out like honey from a jar, ( though not from a honeycomb), and yet there is nothing sweet about the composition. Isn’t that remarkable, not just about art, but about life’s contradictions in general?

It is for the onlooker to decide.

By: Ion Danu

Ion Danu — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:04:19 +0000

Thanks, Ryan. Glad you like it.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:25:20 +0000

really good painting

By: Ion Danu

Ion Danu — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:31:31 +0000

That Nietzsche fellow was quite something! I already told you that, citing Zweig’s biography of him… He suffered of all ilnesses and took so many medicines it really could have killed him and if you contrast his real life with his creative life it gives you a total mess… But there are some who took him very seriously – unfortunately – and there also in his works real sparks of genius. But G. an A. you are correct: not the famous “moralinas” with what doesn’t kill you… That’s mostly a kind of masochistical auto encouragement… Viva el Muerte sounds even better in Spanish…

By: 100swallows

100swallows — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:38:10 +0000

That Nietzsche quote about what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger is clearly not true. That’s just peptalk for warriors. Each one of the blows life gives you leaves you worse off, undermines your will to live. Hemingway never did recover from those two plane wrecks.
Spanish foreign legionnaires used to shout, as they charged into battle: “Long Live Death!” Very good.

By: cantueso

cantueso — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:40:52 +0000

The quotes are mostly moralinas. Isn’t it strange the way moralinas become popular as quotes. And then how the same people who would readily quote Shakespeare’s “there is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so”……. those very same people quote moralinas to each other and, ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡fasten your seatbelt!!!!!!!!!! to themselves!

Wow. It leaves me k.o.

By: iondanu

iondanu — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:47:04 +0000

I certainly hope you are right, Michael (for me Michael, as a name is a good “omen”; sometimes I’m superstitious, a bit… I have another friend Michael, and in Romania I had 2-3 – Mihai is the Romanian version…) and I hope good things happen for you too… You work and you work some more and finally all this gave you something good…

By: michael pokocky

michael pokocky — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:08:50 +0000

Really entertained today here and I have read Steinbeck and Nietzsche. The whole thing is eventually one reaches the point where they write their own quotes and this is one is truly free. I mean this in a good way Danu and you my friend are on the right path for you. I sense great things happening for you too. Just remember that its not what you say or do that matters; its the hint of what is going on inside.