byronic :: mad bad and dangerous to know

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Wir alle sind Seiltänzer! Bei ihm ist’s wie in der Kunst, so auch bei allen Menschen: ‘Der Wille, das Gleichgewicht zu erreichen und zu behalten’.

Max Beckmann, painter 1949

“We are all tightrope artists. For them it is the same as in art, and so it is with all humanity: ‘the desire to achieve balance, and to keep it.’”

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Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2012. Tagged with: gravitytightrope artistswalk the lineMax BeckmannZitatequoteslife
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Byronic
[bai'ra:-nik] 1. Characteristic of, or after the manner of Byron or his poetry. 2. quasi-n. pl. [after Philippics.] Declamatory utterances or invectives in the style of Byron. 3. Byronic hero: prominent literary character type of the Romantic period, whose characteristics include: extraordinary intelligence and perception; high level of education and intellectual prowess; arrogance; cunning and manipulation; emotional conflictedness; moodiness; self-criticism and introspection; self-destructive behaviour; aesthetic sophistication; dark mysterious beauty; powers of attraction; seductiveness and sexual perversion; world-weariness; distaste for social institutions and norms; disrespect of social ranks; being an outcast, an outlaw, or an exile.


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