thinking only begins

Thinking only begins when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.  -Martin Heidegger

What does it represent?  There was never any question in plastic arts, in poetry, in music of representing anything.  It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic. -this is by no means the same thing. -Fernand Leger

Ah, these now seem like old stories, truths from the times of our grandfathers.  -we all know in our hearts that the only truth is the one we tell, the one we say. -it is the one that is hardest to tell, and to tell over and over, until the rest of humanity knows we will not change, we will not alter our beliefs.

The paintings, though they change, are all the same.  The gestures all come from the one hand.  The details are from the same mind and are reflected in each picture...

And no matter what one wishes, you remain the same person.   From the many that one was as a child  to one person laid down to earth.   -an endless yet brief existence.  for each of us the same.

One painting seems dark and dreary, full of darkest thought, blackest detail, the next one light and airy -yet is just not true not in that way.  For each one blares out the notes for help, for beauty, for truth, and for secret peace.

And in each one we see the same self-proclaimed words, the assassination of thought, the traitorous compromises, childish frustrations, idiot, fool, go away and leave art to us -the anointed, the purified, the long-standing truthers.