Reflections · Reflection
EMIL NOLDE ~ WISE PEOPLE
“Clever people master life; the wise iluminate it and create fresh difficulties” Emil Nolde (1867-1956) Flower Garden, Emil Nolde
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THE HUMAN SOUND OF THE VIOLIN
“The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments” ― Charles-Auguste de Beriot Edmund Charles Tarbell, “Girl with Violin (the Violinist),” 1890
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Literature · Reflection
MARCEL PROUST ~ CHILDHOOD AND BOOKS
“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.” Marcel Proust
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW ~ THE VALUE OF ART
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” George Bernard Shaw
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HENRI MATISSE ~ LIVING ON BORROWED TIME
“I didn’t expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I’m living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all t
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PAUL NOUGE ~ LE BRAS REVELATEUR
Paul Nouge Le Bras Revelateur (1929) Paul Nougé (1895–1967) was a Belgian poet, philosopher and surrealist photographer who heavily influenced the Belgian Surrealist School of which he was a member. He was a friend and associate of fellow artists Louis Scutenaire, Marcel Mariën a
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INGEBORG BACHMANN ~ A LOST SENSE OF BELONGING SOMEWHERE
“She wondered all the same how much they really had to say to one another, given that they had only this city in common and a similar way of talking, the same intonation, perhaps she’d just wanted to believe after that third whiskey on the roof garden at the Hilton that he would
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ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY ~ HYMN TO THE ROSE
“You’re beautiful, but you’re empty…One couldn’t die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she’s the one I’ve watered. Since she’s the one I put under glass
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WASSILY KANDINSKY ~ COLOR INFLUENCES THE SOUL
“Color is a Power which directly influences the soul… to cause vibrations in the soul.” Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) Arabs I Cemetry, 1909 Composition VI, 1913
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GEORGIA O’KEEFFE ~ THE UNKNOWN
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing–and keeping the unknown always beyond you.” ― Georgia O’Keeffe Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887–1986) Jack in the Pulpit №V.
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Poetry · Reflection
PAINTINGS SPEAKING POETRY
“Thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, / In some melodious plot / of beechen green, and shadows numberless, / Singest of summer in full-throated ease.” John Keats Nest of the dryad Thomas Benjamin Kennington – Date unknown
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WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT ~ PEASANT GIRL
William Morris Hunt (1824-1879) Peasant Girl Oil on canvas 1852
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