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TAMARA DE LEMPICKA ~ DO NOT COPY

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“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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ANNE BRONTE ~ THE SILENT HOUR OF NIGHT

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“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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EVENING WHISPERS

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“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 anything can happen, anything be believed in.”
― Olivia Howard Dunbar, The Shell of Sense

Bathers in the Evening
Hippolyte Petitjean – 1902

VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ A REWARD FOR BOOKWURMS?

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“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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PAUL KLEE ~ THE EYE

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“One eye sees, the other feels.”
― Paul Klee

Paul Klee is his studio, 1908

 

Fish Magic, 1925

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MANET ~ COLOURS OF NATURE

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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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PRIMO LEVI ~ GOD DOES NOT EXIST

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” 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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GALILEO ~ ON TRUTHS

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Galileo Galilei Astronomer Galileo

PRIMO LEVI ~ ON HAPPINESS

“Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who stop to consider

WILLIAM FAULKNER ~ I’M A FAILED POET

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“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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EMIL NOLDE ~ WISE PEOPLE

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“Clever people master life; the wise iluminate it and create fresh difficulties”

Emil Nolde (1867-1956)

Flower Garden, Emil Nolde

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