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LOUISE ERDRICH ~ RISK YOUR HEART

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“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

Louise Erdrich – The Painted Drum

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GIACOMETTI ~ FEELING LIKE A CHILD

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“Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won’t know what it is until I succeed in doing it.”
Alberto Giacometti

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ANTONI TAPIES ~ ART AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

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“Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.”

ANTONI TAPIES

Barcelona, 1923 – 2012, painter, sculptor.
Tàpies eschewed traditional painting materials and championed the use of all sorts of other materials long before arte povera became a fashionable critical notion. He did in fact invent a new form of material expression.

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JANE AUSTEN ~ CONTEMPLATION

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“When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.”

Jane Austen

painting is from Benjamin Jean Joseph Constant (1845-1902)
Contemplation
Oil on canvas

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ALBERT EINSTEIN ~ ON THE MYSTERIOUS

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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.. his eyes are closed.”
Albert Einstein

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Still life by Giorgio Morandi

THE SURREALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI

THE SURREALITY/REALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI. Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. “There is nothing more surreal,

RALPH WALDO EMERSON ~ ON MAGIC

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“Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.”

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Painting “Study for the Magic Circle”
John Willem Waterhouse

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Still life by Giorgio Morandi

THE SURREALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI

THE SURREALITY/REALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI. Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. “There is nothing more surreal,

ANAIS NIN ~ ON HAPPINESS

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“If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then i will never know happiness. for I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.”

Anais Nin

Photo Irving Penn, Anais Nin (1971)

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Books and Happiness

BOOKS AND HAPPINESS

  “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.” Anonymous Girl Reading

BERTRAND RUSSELL ~ THE POINT OF PHILOSOPHY

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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell

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JACK VETTRIANO ~ ON CREATIVE PEOPLE

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Creative people are stifled somehow by domesticity. They need to have late nights and bad mornings.

Jack Vettriano

The Letter by Jack Vettriano

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MARGARET ATWOOD ~ MEANINGLESS WORDS

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Now we’re on my home ground, foreign territory. My throat constricts, as it learned to do when I discovered people could say words that would go into my ears meaning nothing.

Margaret Atwood

Born 1939, Canada

Surfacing

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