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HENRI MATISSE ~ WE BELONG TO OUR TIME

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“…for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.”
― Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse at work on his Cut-Outs at his home in Nice, 1953

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Henri Matisse, The Reader, Marguerite Matisse

1906

W.H. AUDEN ~ DANCE, DANCE, DANCE TILL YOU DROP

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James Abbot McNeill Whistler  (1894-1903)

A Dancing woman in a Pink robe, seen from the back

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop.
~W.H. Auden


“I love to dance, it does not matter if it is a Tango, a Foxtrot, a Samba or a Jive, just like to move my body on the rhythm of music…I just can not sit still. Other people get their kick out of shopping, playing Foxy Bingo, or singing. But as for me, dancing is my thing. The dance floor has always been my comfort zone.

Dancing is a natural movement of the body and has always been popular! Personally I love the music of the roaring twenties, the swinging age…in music, dances, dresses and names like Heavenly Sugar and Shining Pearl.

Otto Dix, “Metropolis,” 1927-28.

BILLIE HOLIDAY ~ ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

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Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.

Billie Holiday

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