quotes I warm to you are trying to intellectualise something – desparately. And you are wasting your time… That’s not a way of understanding; to make a mini-logic. It’s a visual world. You want to turn everything into an intellectual game. A visual world is totally different. Remember what I’ve said now. (But) people do […]
Month: July 2007
notes on Fittleworth
Fittleworth seems remarkably rich in its broad cultural connections for a parish so small and sleepy. Around 1199 there is mention of a bridge crossing the River Rother close to Ernulf the Fisherman’s land. As a congregating point, an inn came into existence. The Swan maintains it has been serving ale in the same inn since 1382. More […]
Henry Moore’s Intro to Giovanni Pisano By Michael Ayrton; Thames and Hudson (1969)
FIRST TIME I saw the sculptures of Giovanni Pisano was in 1925 when I visited Pisa on a travelling scholarship from the Royal College of Art. I must only have been able to admire, or try to admire, the sculptures on the facade and those on the top of the Baptistry, with struggle and effort, […]