Eyes as big as plates
“If I was a painter, and it’s not out of the question that I’ll become one someday, since after all no one knows what their destiny may be, I would be most fervently an autumn painter. I’m only afraid that my colors wouldn’t be up to it. Maybe I still don’t understand it enough. And anyway, why should I worry at all about something that hasn’t even happened yet? Only the present moment should and must concern me deeply.”
—Robert Walser, from “The Essays of Fritz Kocher.” #Fiction in issue 205, Summer 2013
In an age of populism, the progressive artist is the artist who is not afraid of silence.
The baying of an audience in pursuit of unity is a sound of despair.
In a bad time laugther is a rattle of fear.
How hard is it to sit in a silent theatre.
There is silence and there is silence. Like the colour black, there are colours within the silence.
The silence of compulsion is the greatest achievement of the actor and the dramatist.
We must overcome the urge to do things in unison. To chant together, to hum banal tunes together, is not collectivity.
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Howard Barker, 49 Asides for a Tragic Theatre in Arguments for a Theatre 1989
First published in The Guardian, 10th February 1986
Det er noen som blir og noen som drar sin kos, sånn har det alltid vært. Enhver får velge selv, men han må velge i tide og etterpå alltid stå ved det.
Tove Jansson, Sent i November
Kaffe på Røyrivann, tidlig i oktober.
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