Showing posts with label milan kundera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label milan kundera. Show all posts

Friday, August 24, 2007

music drunk

"for franz music was the art that comes closest to dionysian beauty in the sense of intoxication. no one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on beethoven's ninth, bartok's sonata for two pianos and percussion, or the beatles' white album?"

the unbearable lightness of being, milan kundera

Monday, August 6, 2007

soulmates

keep art alive; art by melanie moore

"he suddenly recalled the famous myth from plato's symposium: people were hermaphrodites until god split them in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost."

the unbearable lightness of being, milan kundera