Solidão

A nossa vinheta contempla a "Solidão", do pintor americano Thomas Alexander Harrison (1853-1930). Procurei-o depois de ver a Melancolia de Edward Munch colocado pelo Luís.

Thomas Alexander Harrison, Solidão, c. 1893

Óleo sobre tela, Museu D' Orsay, Paris.

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"Passion for Things. He who directs his passion to things (the sciences, the national good, cultural interests, the arts) takes much of the fire out of his passion for people (even when they represent those things, as statesmen, philosophers, and artists represent their criations)".

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Man Alone With Himself, London: Penguin Books, 2008, p.1,2