but does it float - Stories Contributed
Thou still unravished bride of quietness
Fine Art | Aug 06 2015 10:0225
Where does the light go when the light goes out?
Fine Art | Aug 04 2015 10:0260
We affirm that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed
Fine Art | Jul 10 2015 14:0222
I had a dream, which was not all a dream
Fine Art | Jun 29 2015 10:5422
Strange that in my remoteness I seemed to feel, as never before, the vital presence of Earth as of a creature alive but tranced and obscurely yearning to wake
Fine Art | Jun 25 2015 10:4422
She kneels on a heavily framed mirror placed flat on the floor. Her head and upper body are in motion
Fine Art | Jun 23 2015 10:0454
I leaned in closer, like a fool, like someone who had not had months of survival training or ever studied biology. Someone tricked into thinking that words should be read
Fine Art | Jun 12 2015 12:0357
Gödel says you can’t program intelligence as complex as yourself. But you can let it evolve
Fine Art | Jun 04 2015 12:4421
I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess
Fine Art | Mar 19 2015 11:4439
Maybe someday we’ll find refuge in true reality. In the meantime, can I just say how opposed I am to all of this?
Fine Art | Mar 16 2015 12:4656
They may grow their first side arm any time from 75–100 years of age, but some never grow one at all
Fine Art | Jan 27 2015 11:4421
Tall in Texas
Fine Art | Jan 22 2015 17:4422
People are going to combine the computation thing and the genetic biological thing and start tinkering with people’s thought processes. And if you thought LSD was a lot of fun, wait until this really works
Fine Art | Jan 07 2015 18:2368
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown
Fine Art | Dec 12 2014 14:5733
I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die
Fine Art | Dec 08 2014 13:0329
It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better
Fine Art | Nov 15 2014 05:5536
The camera sees everything at once. We don’t
Fine Art | Oct 21 2014 16:4746
I wish I could photosynthesize
Fine Art | Oct 09 2014 11:5023
I Am Whoever You Want Me to Be
Fine Art | Sep 23 2014 13:1221
Remember when I swallowed that little computer?
Fine Art | Aug 26 2014 18:0933
Why are honeycomb cells hexagonal? Why do spotted animals tend to have striped tails? Why does Jupiter have a giant red spot?
Fine Art | Aug 21 2014 10:2337
Matter and energy interacting in an arena of space and time
Fine Art | Aug 19 2014 12:08102
An unspeakable horror seized me. There was a darkness; then a dizzy, sickening sensation of sight that was not like seeing; I saw a Line that was no...
Fine Art | Aug 13 2014 11:0630
We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged
Fine Art | Aug 08 2014 12:3443
He strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees
Fine Art | Aug 06 2014 11:1474
In one way or another, we’re all anchored to the book
Fine Art | Jul 21 2014 13:3422
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in...
Fine Art | Jul 16 2014 10:1524
Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?
Fine Art | Jul 14 2014 18:0548
In its shattering effect, birth can only be paralleled by death
Fine Art | Jul 14 2014 09:5942
These self-transforming machine elf creatures were speaking in a colored language which condensed into rotating machines that were like Fabergé eggs...
Fine Art | Jul 10 2014 16:12248
You can roll out steel — any length. You can blow up a balloon — any size. You can mould plastic — any shape
Fine Art | Jun 19 2014 17:2632
How Long Is the Coast of Britain?
Fine Art | Jun 09 2014 12:2645
And my life slowly poisons itself for your eyes
Fine Art | Apr 28 2014 09:0632
She was no scholar in geometry or aught else, but she felt intuitively that the bend and slant of the way she went were somehow outside any other...
Fine Art | Apr 09 2014 11:3631
I suddenly forget What space is like, and time Instead of horizontal Is vertical
Fine Art | Apr 08 2014 11:5333
I make my living fake forgiving
Fine Art | Jan 28 2014 12:1024
with one image he would make that beauty explode into me
Fine Art | Dec 19 2013 07:1631
What in God's name could there be on the horizon?
Fine Art | Nov 25 2013 12:4677
Belonging to the Saints
Fine Art | Nov 14 2013 14:0843
I think photography has been wrestling with a burden of telling the truth, which I don’t think it was ever particularly good at
Fine Art | Oct 25 2013 12:4237
By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created
Fine Art | Oct 24 2013 13:5222
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is
Fine Art | Oct 21 2013 11:1834
but what people will really want to do with these things is make worlds as strange as we can stand
Fine Art | Oct 18 2013 15:2322
In a certain present there is more of the future than in the future itself
Fine Art | Oct 09 2013 10:4351
The problem seems to be how to connect without connecting
Fine Art | Oct 03 2013 15:0352
From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away
Fine Art | Oct 02 2013 11:4547
Shades of Grey
Fine Art | Sep 20 2013 15:3621
You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life
Fine Art | Sep 16 2013 16:1545
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream
Fine Art | Aug 30 2013 20:4221
Unknown, Incomprehensible, whateíer you choose to call it, call; But leave it vague as airy space, dark in its darkness mystical
Fine Art | Aug 27 2013 13:5321
Sometimes you discover the picture you thought you had, that everybody thought we had, actually turns out to be wrong
Fine Art | Jul 23 2013 18:1524
you must first let forms, colors, words and tones grow and afterwards explain them
Fine Art | Jul 17 2013 13:2121
Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell
Fine Art | Jul 09 2013 19:0949
Ik sta op de rand der wereld en roep: “Waar zijt Gij?” De echo antwoordt: “Zijt gij? Gij?”
Fine Art | Jul 05 2013 16:1231
To argue about it only causes us to fall into the pit of Because, and there to perish with the dogs of Reason
Fine Art | Jul 02 2013 13:4188
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present
Fine Art | Jun 26 2013 12:4124
A Thousand Year Reich
Fine Art | Jun 25 2013 13:4452
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves
Fine Art | Jun 24 2013 14:3422
A shiver in the workshop of the brain
Fine Art | Jun 14 2013 16:0036
I built a house in the middle of the ocean / Its windows are rivers which flow out of my eyes
Fine Art | Jun 12 2013 09:0866
All life is conflict. Every breath that you draw represents a victory in the struggle of the whole Universe
Fine Art | Jun 07 2013 14:4132
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction
Fine Art | Jun 05 2013 14:5954
There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn’t
Fine Art | Jun 04 2013 17:5731
To release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen
Fine Art | Jun 03 2013 11:3348
Shall I project a world?
Fine Art | May 30 2013 10:5877
40 Days dans le Désert B
Fine Art | May 24 2013 10:50117
Time itself grows old. Pyramids, arches and obelisks are melting pillars of snow
Fine Art | May 23 2013 11:5823
It is man's relation to the cosmos — to the unknown — which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination
Fine Art | May 15 2013 14:5224
The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realise, is to feel ourselves to be at home here on Earth
Fine Art | May 14 2013 14:5121
With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings
Fine Art | May 01 2013 15:3324
How can you hide from what never goes away?
Fine Art | Apr 29 2013 15:1935
Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
Fine Art | Apr 26 2013 15:1929
A revelation trembled just beyond the threshold of her understanding
Fine Art | Apr 24 2013 11:4130
I Am a Man!
Fine Art | Apr 08 2013 15:4152
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect
Fine Art | Apr 02 2013 10:1997
The earliest known marks of ownership of books date from the reign of Amenophis III in Egypt (1391–53 BCE)
Fine Art | Mar 28 2013 18:5626
Even in a place I had only read about, I still read about other places
Fine Art | Mar 26 2013 08:5088
An ampersand (or epershand; “&”) is a logogram representing the conjunction word “and” — this symbol is a ligature of the letters et, Latin for “and”
Fine Art | Mar 20 2013 14:4535
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know
Fine Art | Mar 06 2013 16:5233
If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head
Fine Art | Mar 05 2013 09:3424
Trying to imagine in advance what we were never intended to know Even as children, when knowledge was free
Fine Art | Feb 26 2013 10:23141
Art today is a new kind of instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility
Fine Art | Feb 21 2013 12:0029
My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people
Fine Art | Feb 20 2013 13:3231
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child
Fine Art | Feb 19 2013 17:5328
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle
Fine Art | Feb 17 2013 07:3249
If it is true, as is claimed that after death man continues a phantom existence I’ll let you know
Fine Art | Jan 30 2013 10:2333
I have an application here that can throw grenades into people’s dreams
Fine Art | Jan 29 2013 04:1229
Mine were inventions like those of a fever, which walk around the room so that you can see them from every side, and then they touch you
Fine Art | Jan 25 2013 00:2330
For you know that I myself am a labyrinth, where one easily gets lost
Fine Art | Jan 25 2013 00:2322
Are designations congruent with things? Is language the adequate expression of all realities?
Fine Art | Jan 10 2013 12:5432
I’m chasing after an image, nothing more
Fine Art | Jan 09 2013 11:1161
We see what we believe, and to change what we see, it is sometimes necessary to change what we believe
Fine Art | Jan 08 2013 18:5144
The Tower is an object which sees, a glance which is seen
Fine Art | Jan 08 2013 15:0146
The unknown is an abstraction; the known, a desert; but what is half-known, half-seen, is the perfect breeding ground for desire and hallucination
Fine Art | Jan 03 2013 09:5524
I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me
Fine Art | Dec 26 2012 14:0081
The Alphabet of the Mind
Fine Art | Dec 20 2012 21:3021
I personally feel that a box, far from being a dead end, is an entrance to another world
Fine Art | Dec 17 2012 20:32244
The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points
Fine Art | Nov 29 2012 16:52252
It’s not possible to live in this age if you don’t have a sense of many contradictory forces
Fine Art | Nov 27 2012 16:5126
Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star hints at the pulse of its being by means of its flickering light. But at what moment in this oscillation is our true self manifested? In the darkness or the twinkle?
Fine Art | Nov 13 2012 19:3188
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