And to do art only for the high feeling of completion and connectedness in the moment of inspiration would be like making love only for the moment of orgasm.
Stephen Nachmanovitch, “Free Play: Improvising in Life and Art”
This is a BBC Horizon documentary on Richard Feynman, this beautiful man full of curiosity. I love how in pictures of him shown on this doc he looks younger as he grows older.
Horizon: Richard Feynman – No Ordinary Genius (full version) (via YouTube).
A documentary on Borges. At the very beginning it sounds a bit too “proud” for the man about to portray, but very quickly it becomes interesting, informative and engaging.
Here is a Borges quote from an interview of him featured in this doc:
“Reality is a combination of perceptions, emotions, feelings, distractions, dreams and surprises. That is reality”
The soul, which is created quick to love,
responds to everything that pleases, just
as soon as beauty wakens it to act.Your apprehension draws an image from
a real object and expands upon
that object until soul has turned toward it;and if, so turned, the soul tends steadfastly,
then that propensity is love—it’s nature
that joins the soul in you, anew, through beauty.
Dante, Divina Comedia, Purgatorio, Canto 18, verses 19 – 27
escape from a bankrupt state 