Showing posts with label Gustave Flaubert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gustave Flaubert. Show all posts

Monday, March 19, 2012

Odilon Redon...print 1889



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The Sphinx: My gaze, which nothing can deflect, remains fixed across all things on an unreachable horizon. The Chimera: I am full of lightness and joy!

A Gustave Flaubert




Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Hermann Naumann...the Temptation of St Anthony...





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Illustration for The Temptation of St. Anthony 1965



"O bliss! bliss! I have seen the birth of life; I have seen the
beginning of motion. The blood beats so strongly in my veins that it
seems about to burst them. I feel a longing to fly, to swim, to bark, to
bellow, to howl. I would like to have wings, a tortoise-shell, a rind,
to blow out smoke, to wear a trunk, to twist my body, to spread myself
everywhere, to be in everything, to emanate with odours, to grow like
plants, to flow like water, to vibrate like sound, to shine like light,
to be outlined on every form, to penetrate every atom, to descend to the
very depths of matter--to be matter!"
 
 
The Temptation of St. Anthony or A Revelation of the Soul 
 Gustave Flaubert