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June 20, 2007
a private battle with thought
Philosophers, literary people, you know…they say thins…inside their heads. They will come to the point that the thing is really the thing. Like they say, “the chair”-there is a chair over there. They really have just a social condition that they know what a chair is…but it has nothing to do with sight. They really cannot see it.
I think it’s a terrible battle-a little private battle I have with thought. That thinking has a lot to do with taking certain things for granted. And it’s difficult to really see something…like if you are looking at me, after a little while it becomes kind of a…you are experiencing something in a flash but…you almost have to focus on the little highlight on my nose…you almost have to look through me to see me, you know? There is no way of really seeing me.
William De Kooning
Richard Avedon - Sixties
Posted by amin at June 20, 2007 3:14 AM