robert motherwell

"Modernity today is not in the hands of the poets, but in the hands of the cops" // Louis Aragon

"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" // A.N. Whitehead

"Poetism is the crown of life; Constructivism is its basis" // Karel Teige

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?…we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us” // Franz Kafka, letter to Oskar Pollack, 27 January 1904