jesús olmo | video autist | graphiosis.com

The ‘jesús olmo’ thing writes scripts, makes videos and takes photos, but what he likes the most is doing nothing; just opening his eyes and see. He recently realized that everything is just One Thing and that in reality there is nobody here seeing in the first place.

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'Reality is an infinity of appearances, a constant and unending possibility of appearing.'
Antonio Machado

'Maybe the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters, the skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, maybe these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known'.
Walt Whitman

'There is so much beyond all that has ever yet been imagined. As I write these words, in the very moment, I feel that the whole air, the sunshine out yonder lighting up theploughed earth, the distant sky, the circumambient ether, and that far space, is full of soul-secrets, soul-life, thingsoutside the experience of all the ages. The fact of my own existence as I write, as I exist at this second, is so marvellous, so miracle-like, strange, and supernatural to me, that I unhesitatingly conclude I am always on the margin of life illimitable, and that there are higher conditions than existence. Everything around is supernatural; everything so full of unexplained meaning...'.
Richard Jefferies

'Mistaken are those who imagine that silence is without life; that it is inanimate, without either spirit or voice. It is not: indeed the Word is to this silence what the shadow is to the foreshadowed, what the veil is to the eyes, what the mind is to truth, what language is to life.'
Amitav Ghosh

'If we do relinquish control, we suddenly see a hidden world, one that has existed all along right in front of us. In a flash, the uncanny presence of this poetic and vibrant world, ripe with mistery, stands before us. Everything is expressing itself as what it is. Everything is alive and talking to us'.
Nathaniel Dorsky

'To remain motionless in order to contemplate how beings are blindly propelled against each other, and how invisible threads hold up the immense weft and warp we wander through.'
Chantal Maillard

'It hadn't been a different world--it was this world turning a new, unknown side to him. This side was revealed to him for a second and then disappeared, before he had time to figure it out.'
Arkady and Boris Strugatski, 'Roadside Picnic'.

"Yes, everything is creating you. Take this bird up there. We think 'I am seeing the bird', when actually the bird is creating the 'me'... That which is seen is creating the one who is seeing. The bird is creating the one who sees the bird. They arise at the same time and dissolve at the same time. And that's all that's ever happening." In other words, this is merely an innocent occurrence of apparent duality."
Jeff Foster, 'The Revelation of Oneness'.

'At such moments even a negligible creature, a dog, a rat, a beetle, a stunted apple tree, a cart track winding over a hill, a mossy stone, counts more for me than a night of bliss with the most beautiful, most devoted mistress. These dumb and in some cases inanimate creatures press toward me with such fullness, such presence of love, that there is nothing in range of my rapturous eye that does not have life. It is as if everything, everything that exists, everything I can recall, everything my confused thinking touches on, means something.'
Hugo von Hofmannsthal

'If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.'
Eleonora Duse

'It is not enough to open the window
To see the fields and the river
It is not enough not to be blind
To see the trees and flowers.
You also must have no philosophy at all.
With philosophy there are no trees: but just ideas.
There is only each one of us, like a cellar.
There is only a closed window, and the whole world outside;
And a dream of what you might see if the window were to open
Which is never what you see when the window is opened.'
Fernando Pessoa

'What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which leads from the visible to the invisible, like the famous cabalist who once said: “If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible.” My aim is always to get hold of the magic of reality and to transfer this reality into painting—to make the invisible visible through reality. It may sound paradoxical, but it is, in fact, reality which forms the mystery of our existence…. One of my problems is to find the self, which has only one form and is immortal…. Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.'
Max Beckmann

'How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearances of trees and automobiles and people with reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.'
Duane Michals

'Understood in its metaphysical sense, Beauty is one of the manifestations of the Absolute Being. Emanating from the harmonious rays of the Divine plan, it crosses the intellectual plane to shine once again across the natural plane, where it darkens into matter.'
Jean Delville

'A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity – he is continually informing and filling some other body. The sun, the moon, the sea and men and women who are creatures of impulse are poetical and have about them an unchangeable attribute—the poet has none, no identity'.
John Keats

'All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.'
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

'Poetry is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality'.
T. S. Eliot

'Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all'.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

'When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence'.
Ansel Adams

'The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye. It can see by invisible light. It can see in the past, present, and future. Instead of using the camera only to reproduce objects, I wanted to use it to make what is invisible to the eye — visible.'
Wynn Bullock

'Light is the first visible animal of the invisible'.
Lezama Lima
'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'.
Goethe

'Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like'.
Plotinus

'The eyes were created by the light so beings would see it'.
Ernesto Cardenal

'God rested on the seventh day in order to look at the rushes'.
J. G. Ballard

'Light will transform anything: a plastic drinking glass full of mineral water, the hairs on the back of your hand, the wing of an airliner thirty thousand feet above the Atlantic. All these things can be redeemed and become for a time essentially themselves.’
M. John Harrison

'The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.'
Italo Calvino

'The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.'
Marcel Proust

'When you see "Who's" really here you see what's really there, as a sort of bonus. This bonus comes as surprise on surprise. The universe is transformed. Colors sing they are so brilliant and glowing, shapes and planes and textures arrange themselves into charming compositions, nothing's repulsive or ugly or out of place. Every random patterning of objects—treetops and cloud banks, leaves and stones littering the ground, reflections in shop windows, stains and the tattered remains of posters on old walls, rubbish of all kinds—each is seen to be inevitable and perfect in its own unique way. And this is the very opposite of human imagination. It's divine realism, the clearing of that imaginative and wordy smokescreen which increasingly hides the world from us as we grow older and more knowing.'
Douglas E. Harding

'Think what it would be to have a work conceived from outside the self, a work that would let us escape the limited perspective of the individual ego, not only to enter into selves like our own but to give speech to that which has no language, to the bird perching on the edge of the gutter, to the tree in spring and the tree in fall, to stone, to cement, to plastic. '
Italo Calvino

'I love pointing my camera into that emptiness, into that space, and seeing what happens.'
Murray Fredericks

'This world is the movie of what everything is, it is one movie, made of the same stuff throughout, belonging to nobody, which is what everything is.'
Jack Kerouac

'Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this, more than anything else, brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within.... By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal and it no longer mattered where he was. On his best walks he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere.'
Paul Auster