WILLIAM ROBERT LEACH: William R. Leach's Favourite Painters (Part I)

Thursday, November 4, 2010

William R. Leach's Favourite Painters (Part I)

Henri Matisse - "Dance (I)", 1909

“Every angel has a right and left hand,
at the right hand are the reapers,
at the left hand are the sowers.”

William R. Leach (1954-1999)
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Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

* In March 1909, Matisse received a commission from the Russian merchant Sergei Shchukin for two large decorative panels, Dance and Music (now in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg). This painting was made quickly as a compositional study for Dance, which was intended to hang on a staircase landing at Shchukin's Trubetskoy Palace, in Moscow. The figure at left appears to move purposefully, while the other dancers seem to float weightlessly. The momentum of their movement breaks the circle as the arm of the foreground dancer reaches out. Dance, Matisse once said, evoked "life and rhythm."

Source: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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William R. Leach Quotes:

"My poems are known for causing first-sight difficulties, but they have also been known to pare-away a reader's initial resistances and strike some astonishment home.

I hope you will approach them like a dancing-partner and wear them out into their seductivness. Because they will come home to you."

"I am known for occassions of strange eloquence and am possessed of a rampant industry. All I can do is write."

"I write in high rhetoricity, which as Harold Bloom puts it, is not much in fashion now, but always returns, like an evidence of buried gods."

“It is important that a person not be contained by their time.”

"I want people to know how it feels to have ideas like these in my head (190-IQ ideas). I suspect people drop dead to avoid this."

"History is too thick with failure because of personalities who don't realize that heart matter has to be kept warm against the cold."

"Out of a heart a world will form."

"What is courage?"...
..."Courage is love."

“Look inside the light to see more light instead of seeing the darkness that follows it.”

“The whole art of living consists of giving up our existence in order to exist.”

“Every angel has a right and left hand, at the right hand are the reapers, at the left hand are the sowers.”

“It might be wise to cry.”