On Not Being Able to Paint by Milner Marion

Author:Milner, Marion
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Behavioral Sciences
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2010-09-09T16:00:00+00:00

I think the yellow cliff has got to be ground to powder like the golden calf of the Israelites.

‘… Cleopatra’s needle, believing in the omnipotent magical command, how constantly people try to use it, in newspapers, sermons, everywhere, they say we must do this, that, as if that was enough. And it is made of stone, invulnerable, it stands apart and commands and does not spread itself and give of its own substance. In my mind it is close to the tables of stone of the Mosaic law, but also to the law of reason which stands apart from feelings. I remember that in the evening of the day I drew it we sat on rocks by the sea when the sun was going down and I asked H. something about mathematics, I forget what, and he began drawing graphs on a flat piece of stone to illustrate his answer. And always afterwards I have thought of that stone as the shape of a tombstone, with the ten commandments upon it. Now I feel that all these, the Cleopatra’s needle, the stone of the imposed moral law, and the imposed logic of reason, they are all in various ways, for me, the opposite of this other kind of control, which comes when the mind does not stand apart from the “other” and apart from feeling.’

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