Sublime

The other legend that was equally firmly embedded in Roman history and literature is the story of the Trojan hero Aeneas, who escaped from the city of Troy after the mythical war between Greeks and Trojans that is the backdrop of Homer’s Iliad. After leading his son by the hand and carrying his elderly father from the burning ruins, he eventually

a chariot can survive change in its parts, and even disassembly and reassembly. It is therefore neither identical with the collection of its parts, nor with those parts arranged in some particular way.

One of the wonders of Twombly’s art is how much it changed, and at the same time how it stayed steadfast to certain ideas or images.

Intellectual obsessions never really end; they can only be transposed.

I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.