February 25, 2005

Impressionism

Ironic how the impressionists deal with the fleeting ephemereality of the moment just so they expose the "surface."

Post-impressionism
"Looking at the stars always makes me dream...why shouldn't the shining dots of the sky be...accessible...just as we take the train to get to Tarascon...we take death to reach a star."
~Vincent Van Gogh

Posted by Michael Diezmos at February 25, 2005 4:17 PM
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miguel, if ever you're bored, i recommend acting out john donne's holy sonnet 14 in front of your class. they'll clap for you, i promise, mostly i think because they're glad it's not them doing it. i did it like two and a half weeks ago and was meaning to tell you ever since then, but such is life. the funny things about stories accumulating is that eventually some never get told-ever, in the whole scheme of things. that's a long time. some forms of communication are on the verge of extinction. they're forgotten or go where all the matches to my socks seem to go. i hate when things disappear.

Posted by: lauren-elise therese at February 26, 2005 10:26 AM

great idea Laur-eli-rese, but I think if I were to get bored I'd read Irving Stone's biographical novel about Vincent Van Gogh...wink,wink,like the stars in the sky......

Posted by: Mikellanvbic at February 26, 2005 11:27 AM

Hey ya Mikey D! I just saw that you wrote about Van Gogh; remember that my window has "Starry Night" painted on it :-)

Nice quote--makes me think of precisely how articulate art can be in our lives.

Posted by: Karissa at March 6, 2005 12:11 AM

yeah i remember, nice painting!

Posted by: mike at March 11, 2005 3:51 PM

I have a funny feeling this quotation might become the most famous ever written.

Posted by: John Chaplain at November 10, 2005 11:12 AM
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