Influences (xv)

 

“Power is not a means; it is an end. 

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution 

in order to establish the dictatorship. 

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”

George Orwell

Influences (xiv)

 

"Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had."

Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

Influences (xiii)

 

"Mistakes can't be erased, but they move you from your present position."

Richard Diebenkorn

Influences (xii)

 

"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."

Edward Hopper

Shakespeare (xiii)

 

Shakespeare (xii)

 

"I am fire and air; my other elements

I give to baser life."

William Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra, Act v Scene ii

Shakespeare (xi)

"There, take thy hire; and all the fiends of hell

divide themselves between you!"

William Shakespeare

Cymbeline, Act II Scene IV

Influences (x)

 

Shakespeare (vi)

 

"Home without boots, and in foul weather

How 'scapes he agues, in the devil's name?"

William Shakespeare

First Part of King Henry IV, Act III Scene I

Influences (ix)

 

Influences (viii)

 

"They were watching, out

there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning

and whales ferry their vast souls through

the black and seamless sea."

Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West

Influences (vii)

 

"The truth about the world, he said, is that

anything is possible. Had you not seen it all

from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness

it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick

in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras

having neither analogue nor precedent, an

itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow

whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field

is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning."

Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West

Influences (vi)

 

"Anger, of course, overcomes all hesitations

and can thus replace the primary reason

precisely because it is no reason at all."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Notes From Underground

Influences (v)

 

"He remembered that Colonel Gerineldo Marquez had once promised to get him a horse with a white star on its face and then he had never spoken about it again. Then he went on toward scattered episodes but he brought them back without any judgement because since he could not think of anything else, he had learned to think coldly so that inescapable memories would not touch any feeling."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Influences (iv)

 

"Aureliano Serrador had left his girlfriend at her parents' house after having taken her to the movies and was returning through the well-lighted Street of the Turks when someone in the crowd who was never identified fired a revolver shot which knocked him over into a caldron of boiling lard."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude