NIKOLSONS KOH SAMUI

To built.. is a noble art

"Ah, to build.. That is the noblest of all the arts"

H.W. Longfellow

Faith.. Hope.. Love..

Consious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

Hope, when bold, is strength. Hope, with doubt, is cowardice. Hope, with fear, is weakness.

Concious love evokes the same in response. Emotional love evokes the opposite. Physical love depends on type and polarity.

Aphorisms of G.I. Gurdjieff, a mystic

What unfreezes a man?..

What unfreezes a man? By whose authority does he admit the Gulf Stream into his crystal? How does the humiliated spirit find its way out of the dead Kabala? How to smear the ideal with possibility and then humble every possibility? Why is nothing left standing? What removes the skill from his caress and leaves his hand amputated from all meaning, lifeless and heavy on her thigh? Why is he born again without monument?

Either you know why you have come into this world or you don't.

from Death of a Lady's Man by Leonard Cohen,
poet

I love you Leonard as I love your beautiful words of eternal love, prayer and sorrow, brought to the land of Plenty all the way from the other side of the Masterpiece..
You helped me to unfreeze.. I am forever grateful..

Artists: gods or angels?..

In his classic book The Work of Atget, John Szarkowski concludes that Atget's achievement as a true artist may finally be attributable to the fact that his goal was larger than the expression of his ego.. Szarkowski observes further that Atget's example "makes us hope to see again artists not as gods but angels", not as autonomous creators but as creative celebrants of what is given!

No sentiment could be more out of fashion today.. An artist nonetheless can effectively show us life only if he or she steps partly aside..

Quote used from Why People Photograph by Robert Adams