“Each has a false idea of the other. The injustice of the mighty, which enrages us most in history, is by no means as great as it appears. Simply the inherited feeling of being a higher being, with higher pretensions, makes one rather cold.”— Nietzsche, Human All Too Human
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Takato Yamamoto
“I tremble before the animal, the alien, the sub- or suprahuman, the me that has something in common with the wind and the trees and the rocks, that possesses a demon determination and ruthlessness beyond the human.”— Gloria Anzaldúa, from Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza (via women-loving-art)
Joel-Peter Witkin
Las Meninas, New Mexico, 1987
Etherton Gallery, Arizona
Photography on toned gelatin silver print
71.1x71.1 cm