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ANNE MICHAELS ~ ON GRIEF

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“Grief requires time. If a chip of stone radiates its self, its breath, so long, how stubborn might be the soul”

Anne Michaels

Fugitive Pieces

JAMES JOYCE ~ THE ARTIST

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“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

EDWARD HOPPER ~ A REASON FOR PAINTING

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If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper (1882-1967)
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HERMANN HESSE ~ REALITY

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There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.”

Hermann Hesse

LEWIS MUMFORD ~ ON MYSTERY

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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Lewis Mumford

Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was an American historian, philosopher of technology, and influential literary critic.

SCHOPENHAUER ~ ROYAL ART

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Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Arthur Schopenhauer

GOGOL ~ PASSION OR HABIT?

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“What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?”

Nicolai Gogol

PABLO PICASSO ~ WHAT IS AN ARTIST?

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29th September 1955:  Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973)

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician? …On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly on the alert to the heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.

Pablo Picasso

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER ~ ON THINKING

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“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

BONNARD ~ THE TWO LIVES OF A PAINTER

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“I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.”
Pierre Bonnard

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