Catalogue of Stanley Kubrick’s exposition presented in Milan (Italy)
“Ever the dim beginning,
Ever the growth, the rounding of the circle,
Ever the summit and the merge at last, (to surely start again,)
Eidolons! eidolons!…”
“…The whole or large or small summ’d, added up,
In its eidolon…”
“…Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news, the fitful events; These come to me days and nights and go from me again, But they are not the Me myself…”
“To a certain cantantrice: ..I see that what I was reserving belongs to you just as much as to any”
“Beginning my studies the first step pleas’d me so much,
The mere fact consciousness, these forms, the power of motion…”
“Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I effuse
unreturn’d love,
But now I think there is no unreturn’d love, the pay is certain one
way or another,
(I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not return’d,
Yet out of that I have written these songs.) …”
“O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you;
As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,
Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me…”
“…I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained. I stand and look at them long and long…”
“I am the man, I suffered, I was there.”
Quoted on Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) and in the epigraph of Giovanni’s Room, the novel written by James Baldwin
Series of Rocky Graziano’s portraits. Day of the Fight (1951), the first short documentary directed by Stanley Kubrick, is about the life of the boxer Walter Cartier.
“Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”
Photographs by Stanley Kubrick
Excerpt of poems from Walt Withman’s Leaves of Grass
The Genealogy of Style 