When life is a horror....Don't look like a ghost!
_I have fallen in love with a painting. Though that phrase doesn__ seem to suffice, not really__ather__ it that I have been drawn into the orbit of a painting, have allowed myself to be pulled into its sphere by casual attraction deepening to something more compelling. I have felt the energy and life of the painting__ will; I have been held there, instructed. And the overall effect, the result of looking and looking into it__ brimming surface as long as I could look, is love, by which I mean a sense of tenderness toward experience, of being held within an intimacy with the things of the world.
Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
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_I have fallen in love with a painting. Though that phrase doesn__ seem to suffice, not really__ather__ it that I have been drawn into the orbit of a painting, have allowed myself to be pulled into its sphere by casual attraction deepening to something more compelling. I have felt the energy and life of the painting__ will; I have been held there, instructed. And the overall effect, the result of looking and looking into it__ brimming surface as long as I could look, is love, by which I mean a sense of tenderness toward experience, of being held within an intimacy with the things of the world.
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