Ireland Archives - Moniqs.com: Satisfaction For Art Lovers... https://www.moniqs.com/tag/ireland/ satisfaction for artlovers - cultural magazine Mon, 20 Jun 2022 07:42:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 FRANCIS BACON ~ IMAGINATION https://www.moniqs.com/francis-bacon-imagination/ Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:50:51 +0000 http://moniquespassions.com/?p=4621 “Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not…” Francis Bacon (1909-1992) Study for the Nurse in the Battleship Potemkin, 1957.

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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not…”

Francis Bacon (1909-1992)

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Study for the Nurse in the Battleship Potemkin, 1957.

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]]> MAEVE BRENNAN ~ HOME IS A PLACE IN THE MIND https://www.moniqs.com/maeve-brennan-home-is-a-place-in-the-mind/ https://www.moniqs.com/maeve-brennan-home-is-a-place-in-the-mind/#comments Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:12:16 +0000 http://moniquespassions.com/?p=3607 “Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness. Then what resentful wonder, and what half-aimless seeking. It is a silly state of affairs. It is a […]

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― Maeve Brennan, The Visitor

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]]> https://www.moniqs.com/maeve-brennan-home-is-a-place-in-the-mind/feed/ 1 OSCAR WILDE ~ ON POETS https://www.moniqs.com/oscar-wilde-on-poets/ https://www.moniqs.com/oscar-wilde-on-poets/#respond Thu, 17 May 2012 12:22:58 +0000 http://moniquespassions.com/?p=3559 A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ~Oscar Wilde

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
~Oscar Wilde

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]]> https://www.moniqs.com/oscar-wilde-on-poets/feed/ 0 JAMES JOYCE ~ THE ARTIST https://www.moniqs.com/james/ https://www.moniqs.com/james/#respond Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:22:03 +0000 http://moniquespassions.com/?p=3169 “The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.” James Joyce (1882-1941) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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James Joyce

(1882-1941)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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