The journal
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Reflections · Reflection
Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason. Pierre Bonnard French; Les Nabis Founding Member, Post-Impressionism; 1867-1947 The Terrace at Vernonnet, 1939 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
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Literature · Reflection
“Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being. We possess the books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and ob
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Art · Reflection
“To individuals, becoming whole or complete is the process by which we “give birth” to ourselves as both “truly human” and “partially divine” within the Self.” Carl Jung Frantisek Kupka, Dream, c. 1909
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Reflections · Reflection
“My goal is never to copy. Create a new style, clear luminous colors and feel the elegance of the models.” Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) Tamara de Lempicka The Green Turban 1929
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Poetry · Reflection
“I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.” ― Anne Brontë – Moonlit Landscape, by Edward Steichen, 1907
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Poetry · Reflection
“The pale stars were sliding into their places. The whispering of the leaves was almost hushed. All about them it was still and shadowy and sweet. It was that wonderful moment when, for lack of a visible horizon, the not yet darkened world seems infinitely greater—a moment when a
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Literature · Reflection
“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.” Virginia Woolf
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Literature · Reflection
“It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (1929-1945)
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Reflections · Reflection
“One eye sees, the other feels.” ― Paul Klee Paul Klee is his studio, 1908 Fish Magic, 1925
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Reflections · Reflection
There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another. Edouard Manet The Monet family in their garden at Argenteuil – Edouard Manet
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Literature · Reflection
” I must say that the experience of Auschwitz for me was such as to sweep away any remnants of the religious education that I had had…Auschwitz existed, therefore God cannot exist. I find no solution to that dilemma. I seek a solution, but I don’t find it. “ Primo Levi
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Literature · Reflection
“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.” —William Faulkner
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