You Are Not Wasting Time; It Was Given To You As A Gift, Freely and Generously; Is Rain Wasted Because It Falls On Gardens, Grass, Disgruntled Birds, and Umbrellas All The Same?
Illustrations from Drawing with Pen and Ink by Willy Pogany (1930)
“Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort. Painting is trying to paint what you cannot paint and writing is writing what you cannot know before you have written: it is preknowing and not knowing, blindly, with words. It occurs at the point where blindness and light meet. Kafka says — one very small line lost in his writing — “to the depths, to the depths.””
— Hélène Cixous, Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (via thirdity)
Jean-Pierre Roy (American, b. 1974)
Bicameral Husbandry, 2019
Oil on linen
