Tag: Carmelo Bene
Carmelo Bene – Four Moments on the Whole Nothing – 4°: Art
(Miserable) artists and relative (miserable) consumers. Read the full page
Carmelo Bene – Four Moments on the Whole Nothing – 3°: Eros
Poor, poor… Poor lovers! Read the full page
Translated from Italian by me (WTFPL).
Already from our dusk of birth, begins a destiny. Ruthless, for most human beings: if you are not born a billionaire, you are doomed forever. You have to give in to the everyday, procure stimuli for the project; instead of de-projecting, you are damned to the drawing.
As it began, it was over already, as in all Lorenzaccesque misadventures. If I had been the billionaire Schopenhauer, I certainly would not have written “The World as Will and Representation”. I would have been careful not to: one is not born to work, to explain oneself, to think; one is not even born to un-think, because even that is engaging with thought. One is not born to manage, to act-suffer: all this is inflicted upon us by circumstances.
Just as we passively endure every prenatal perception, we will also endure the signifier. In the recurrence of life, discourse will never belong to the speaking being.
The registry office, the studying to survive, condemn us to in-forming ourselves, to form ourselves, deform ourselves, to become hunchbacked like Leopardi, just to have a part, when we would want nothing more than to put aside art, and life itself too. A true curse.
Carmelo Bene, Autografia di un ritratto (“Autograph of a Portrait”)
Translated from Italian by me (WTFPL).
Any so-called “know-it-all” expertise is bullshit, and any problem is a false problem. For once, on this show, we’re really talking about bullshit, finally! It’s about time!, to recognize that we’re always talking bullshit. Tonight we’re saying it’s not just tonight that it’s bullshit, but that we’re always just talking words – that is, bullshit.
Carmelo Bene at the Maurizio Costanzo Show (“Uno contro tutti” special)
Translated from Italian by me (WTFPL).
If you don’t remove the world as will and representation, this mania… The principle of individuation by which we wake up in the morning, we want to kill ourselves, then two or three coffees are enough, and off we go, back to deceive, to kill time. But theatre is essentially the non-place.
Carmelo Bene at the Maurizio Costanzo Show
Translated from Italian by me (WTFPL).
For me, the fuller the [theatre] halls are, the emptier they are.
Carmelo Bene, on various occasions
Our Lady of the Turks – Carmelo Bene
He who has never thought about death is perhaps immortal. This is how you can see the Virgin Mary. Read the full page
Translated from Italian by me (WTFPL).
If you spend time with the most erudite ones, it doesn’t mean that you get close to the absolute.
Carmelo Bene – Our Lady of the Turks
Translated from Italian by me (WTFPL).
He who has never thought about death is perhaps immortal. This is how you can see the Virgin Mary.
Carmelo Bene – Our Lady of the Turks