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Portrait of human knowledge

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He who never desired itHe has not kissed life

He has not walked barefootOn the carpet of anguish

Where feet sink And you lose the value of effort

There are no footprints that follow you

That animal cryThat elevates you

It pulls you out of nothingIt spits you into the center of life

It arranges a meeting for you with existenceIt does not abandon youOn any old street corner

It paints a portrait of you in a naked fieldWhere the colours are docile

And the cries are mute

Lita Cabellut

Portrait of Human knowledge

CABELLUT2012

“I only have the intention to touch you for a moment.” Lita Cabellut

“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” Anne Frank

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”

Federico García Lorca

“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.” Janis Joplin

“I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.”

Igor Stravinsky

“My feet are dogs.”

Rudolf Nureyev

“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”

Franz Kafka

“My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.”

Pablo Neruda

“There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.” Marlene Dietrich

“ If women would only understand that many men are not half so interested in a well-ordered house as they are in a well-groomed wife, things might be different.” Louise Weber known as La Goulue

“People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.”

Frida Kahlo

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”

Marie Curie

“To be bourgeois is to have a certain type of materialism. You have to think of what that means. It means everything that destroys dreams, everything that destroys anything attractive. That’s what being bourgeois means for me. It means security. It’s a type of mediocrity of the spirit. It’s everything I dislike.”

Jaques Brel

“For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I’m afraid to sleep. It’s a form of death.”

Edith Piaf

“Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.” Eva Perón

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”

Albert Einstein

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

Mother Teresa

“Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.”

Sigmund Freud

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“When we try to form a totality of the image, we lose the tenderness of the detail.” Lita Cabellut

“...My birth name doesn’t mean anything. I am Grock. The first is the name of the dark years...”

Grock

“Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.”

Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”

Coco Chanel

“I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.”

Maria Callas

“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”

Nikola Tesla

“If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!”

Miles Davis

“We must seek the music of the people”

Camarón de la Isla

“Vision changes while it observes.” James Ensor

“I never hurt nobody but myself and that’s nobody’s business but my own” Billie Holiday

“The basic mistake of many scientific endeavors in the present is that they believe they are presenting pure experience, while in reality they are reading out the concepts that they put into their experience in the first place.”

Rudolf Steiner

“Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.” Marilyn Monroe

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

Charlie Chaplin

“Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”

Cervantes, Don Quixote

“I swear that I gave everything.” Carmen Amaya

“It paints a portrait of you in a naked field. Where the colours are docile, and the cries are mute.”

Lita Cabellut

If my brushesWere not able to speakIf my feetWere not able to take a step forward or backTo gain perspective on what I seeIf in my headConfusion and doubt were not reigningIf I don’t cryI laughIf I was not dazzled by whiteAnd moved by indigoWhat lonelinessWhat lonelinessI would have with myself

Lita Cabellut

Anne Frank 200 x 180 cm

2012

Mixed media on canvas

F. García Lorca 02200 x 180 cm

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F. García Lorca 01280 x 200 cm

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Janis Joplin 03200 x 180 cm

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Igor Stravinsky280 x 200 cm

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Rudolf Nureyev280 x 200 cm

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Franz Kafka 02200 x 180 cm

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Franz Kafka 01280 x 200 cm

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Pablo Neruda200 x 180 cm

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Marlene Dietrich 01280 x 200 cm

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Marlene Dietrich 03 200 x 180 cm

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Marlene Dietrich 02200 x 180 cm

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Louise Weber 280 x 200 cm

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Friedrich Nietzsche 200 x 180 cm

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Diego 01 300 x 180 cm

2011


Frida 25 300 x 180 cm

2011


Marie Curie 02200 x 180 cm

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Marie Curie 01280 x 200 cm

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Jaques Brel250 x 200 cm

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Edith Piaf270 x 200 cm

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Eva Perón 01280 x 200 cm

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Albert Einstein 200 x 180 cm

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Mother Teresa 02200 x 180 cm

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Mother Teresa 01280 x 210 cm

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Sigmund Freud 280 x 200 cm

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Grock 02260 x 200 cm

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Truman Capote 200 x 180 cm

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Coco N. 36250 x 200 cm

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Coco N. 42280 x 200 cm

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Maria Callas 05200 x 180 cm

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Maria Callas 01280 x 200 cm

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Nikola Tesla250 x 200 cm

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Paintings, poetry and art director: Lita Cabellut Graphic design: Marta Gil Guerrero Photography: John Tromp www.studiotromp.nl Gérard Rancinan Alain Henry Steegmans Eddy Wenting Publisher: Opera GalleryPrinting: Jubels B.V. www.jubels.nl

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Trilogy of the doubt 01 260 x 200 cm

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Miles Davis 01270 x 200 cm

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Camarón de la Isla290 x 200 cm

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Billie Holiday 03200 x 180 cm

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Billy Holiday 01280 x 200 cm

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Rudolf Steiner250 x 200 cm

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Marilyn Monroe 05 250 x 200 cm

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Charlie Chaplin 01 280 x 200 cm

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Don Quixote 250 x 200 cm

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Carmen Amaya 02150 x 130 cm

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Carmen Amaya 01280 x 210 cm

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