Nuni-Cunai - Thoughts

Thoughts

if you have friends
you have lived for love
If you have enemies
you have lived for ideas
If you have both
you have lived a full life
(The Spring of My Stalin, 1999)
in fact Olympia has more kinship with sovereign solidity of Michelangelo's Dawn than domesticated sensuality of Venus d'Urbino
(The Second Day in Florence, 1998)
Art is a powerful tool that may promote understanding between peoples and like any tool, it would serve us better, the better we understand it

Each generation, indeed, each moment creates its own eternity. We cherish the past, but cannot recreate eternity on its terms. The most we can do is to pay homage, but to pay homage does not automatically guarantee that our work take on the greatness of the past.

Realizing that the world is filled with people who do not see what you see is a most bewitching moment for it is then that you see that you do have something unique to communicate to others. However, trying to explain what seems obvious to you is far from easy, since one takes the obvious for granted: such as an apple falling from a tree.
But at least one can see an apple falling from a tree. This is the poetic charm of Nature: the universality of her laws wordlessly manifesting itself everyday through the most mundane objects. She explains nothing: she simply shows everything. An artist, too, explains nothing. Rather, she expresses herself and, like Nature, creates a world - her world - whose explanation is not only contained in itself but in the reactions it extracts from others.