Alberto Gallego

Alberto Gallego

About me: I make software, write, and take photos.

Unwired Ideas from a train to Budapest

I was on a 5-hour train journey from Timişoara to Budapest, and it occurred to me to do the following exercise: During the journey, I was going to write down and maybe delve into some ideas that were coming up in my head. I think it is a very useful way to understand how you think, and above all, where your gaps are.

After writing them down, I thought it was a good idea to share them with you:

“From the age of six, I had a passion for copying the form of things and since the age of fifty I have published many drawings, yet of all I drew by my seventieth year there is nothing worth taking into account. At seventy-three years I partly understood the structure of animals, birds, insects and fishes, and the life of grasses and plants. And so, at eighty-six I shall progress further; at ninety I shall even further penetrate their secret meaning, and by one hundred I shall perhaps truly have reached the level of the marvellous and divine. When I am one hundred and ten, each dot, each line will possess a life of its own.”


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