Art · Reflection
FREDERIC CHOPIN ~ ON SIMPLICITY
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art” Frederic Chopin
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VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ THE PAST
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. ” Virginia Woolf
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ILYA REPIN ~ MOONLIGHT
“Moonlight” by Ilya Repin “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” W. Clement Stone
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ARTHUR RIMBAUD ~ THE MOON
But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.” Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)
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LUISA CASATI ~ LA CASATI THE MUSE
“Tall and gaunt with heavily made-up eyes, La Casati represented a past age of splendor when a few beautiful and wealthy women adopted an almost brutally individualistic way of living and presenting themselves to the public.” Elsa Schiaparelli Photo Luisa Casati 1912
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DAVID NATIDZE ~ SLEEPING WOMAN
“Sleeping woman” 2007 David Natidze Sculptor, Georgia
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ALFRED KUBIN ~ MADNESS
MADNESS ALFRED KUBIN “A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free” NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
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SALVADOR DALI ~ ON DRAWING
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.” Salvador Dali on Drawing
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THOMAS MANN ~ ON LIFE
“For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.” Thomas Mann (1875-1955)
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NONA ROSTAGNO ~ ART IS ALL AROUND HER…
Music in the Air Nona Rostagno Nona is born in the Ukraine, but for political reasons her father left his country in 1943 to live somewhere else. They went to Brazil. The whole family got the Brazilian nationality. In Brazil Nona had the opportunity to study languages, music and
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Poetry · Reflection
SECRETS OF A RESTLESS MIND ~ POEM BY MONIQUE LUCY WEBERINK
All by myself absorbing the silence Excluding the noise of my complicated life I just like to sit here and be quiet for a while Observing the incomprehensible world around me Listen, carefully now, can you hear this stillness Or is it just inside, inside my head Millions of thoug
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GUSTAVE DORE ~ A MIDNIGHT DREARY
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe; Plate 4 – A Midnight Dreary Paul Gustave Dore
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