GLENN GOULD ~ ON BEING AN ARTIST

“I am a writer and I want to write.” ― Jane Bowles Fear and Hope “Like most people, you
MARIA YAKUNCHIKOVA (1870-1902) WOMEN WITH A PASSION FOR ART The first female artist I want to introduce in the series
MARC AND BELLA CHAGALL ~ A COLORFUL LOVE “In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s
“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.” Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), was an
A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ~Oscar Wilde
Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which
“Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have
“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to
MARIA YAKUNCHIKOVA (1870-1902) WOMEN WITH A PASSION FOR ART The first female artist I want to introduce in the series
Federico Garcia Lorca “Let there be a landscape of open eyes and bitter wounds on fire. No one is sleeping
MARC AND BELLA CHAGALL ~ A COLORFUL LOVE “In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s
Evening Jakub Schikaneder – circa 1900 “I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows
“Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the
“If we look closely, most things in this world are the results of imagination.” Maria Konstantinowna Bashkirtseff (1858-1884) The Umbrella
“I am a writer and I want to write.” ― Jane Bowles Fear and Hope “Like most people, you
THE SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR EFFECT “I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.” SIMONE
ONE WAY TO READ A BOOK In the opinion of the famous writer Doris Lessing there is only one
“I am a writer and I want to write.” ― Jane Bowles Fear and Hope “Like most people, you
MARC AND BELLA CHAGALL ~ A COLORFUL LOVE “In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s
THE SURREALITY/REALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI. Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. “There is nothing more surreal,
“I am a writer and I want to write.” ― Jane Bowles Fear and Hope “Like most people, you
Federico Garcia Lorca “Let there be a landscape of open eyes and bitter wounds on fire. No one is sleeping
THE SIRENS ARE ENCHANTERS Circe warns Odysseus about the Sirens: “You will come first of all to the Sirens, who
This intense novel is about a young mother and wife called Zoe Kruller, who is brutally murdered. It uses mixed storylines
“You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.” Anonymous Girl Reading
“I am a writer and I want to write.” ― Jane Bowles Fear and Hope “Like most people, you
“Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.”
― W.B. Yeats
Hope and memory
Kenyon Cox – 1900
MARIA YAKUNCHIKOVA (1870-1902) WOMEN WITH A PASSION FOR ART The first female artist I want to introduce in the series
Federico Garcia Lorca “Let there be a landscape of open eyes and bitter wounds on fire. No one is sleeping
MARC AND BELLA CHAGALL ~ A COLORFUL LOVE “In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s