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Quote by Peter Blegvad

“I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.”

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Peter Blegvad is a Danish musician known for his contributions to rock, folk, and world music. Born on August 14, 1951, he has been active in the music industry since the 1970s. more

“I'd done a drawing of the model using only peripheral vision, looking at a spot on the wall to the right of where she sat. It wasn't really a drawing of her I produced; it was a drawing of the cloud of lights and darks she dissolved into when I focused on the spot. You could look at my drawing of this cloud and read it as a nude female figure, though a little translation was required.”

Looks Littles Done Light Vision Figures Wall Models Female Clouds Focused Drawing Spots Sat Translations Peripheral Vision

Author:Peter Blegvad

“Anyone who grew up in the psychedelic '60s probably experienced their share of hypnagogic fireworks. Just as sex got me hooked on anatomy, so drugs were probably what first got me interested in entoptic phenomena, phosphenes, and hypnagogic imagery.”

Firsts Sex Share Grew Drug Grew Up Imagery Psychedelic Hooked Anatomy Fireworks

Author:Peter Blegvad

“My ignorance would require a volume to itself. Between its covers would be preserved a record of the spurious model of all creation I had in my head, a prelapsarian construct, uncorrupted by the facts.”

Facts Would Be Records Creation Ignorance Models Volume Constructs

Author:Peter Blegvad

“The goal of all my work is essentially the same: demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying attention, and finding compensation or consolation for what is essentially a tragic existence.”

Real Reality Goal Existence Attention Magic Findings Pay Attention Tragic Consolation Compensation Demonstrating

Author:Peter Blegvad

“At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to have an experience of separation from others.”

Mean Animal Loneliness Separation

Author:Thomas L. Dumm

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