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MILLAIS ~ ON MATURITY

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“My maturity has not fulfilled the hopes and ambitions of my youth.”
John Everett Millais

LEONORA CARRINGTON ~ MAGIC

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You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It’s not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away and I can’t even remember your name.”
Leonora Carrington (The Hearing Trumpet)

FRANZ LISZT ~ BEING AN ARTIST

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“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.”
Franz Liszt

COLETTE ~ ON BEING HAPPY

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“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise”
Colette

MARC CHAGALL ~ THE DIGNITY OF AN ARTIST

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“The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.”

Marc Chagall



VLADIMIR NABOKOV ~ SENSE OR NONSENSE

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“The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.”
Vladimir Nabokov 1899-1977

This photo of Nabokov and his wife is taken in Switzerland.

BARUCH SPINOZA ~ ON BEING HAPPY

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“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”

Baruch de Spinoza, (1632-1677), Jewish philosopher. His “Tractatus theologico-politico” defends freedom of thought and tolerance. German School. Herzogliche Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel, Germany.

(Photo by Imagno/Getty Images) [Baruch de Spinoza, (1632-1677), JJuedischer Philosoph. Deutsche Schule.  Wolfenbuettel, Germany]

GOYA ~ STATE OF BEING…

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“I’m not moaning, nor thinking of moaning, for I believe that no one is richer than he who is content with what he has, and that I am…”

Francisco Goya

BERNARD MALAMUD ~ ON WRITING

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Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
Bernard Malamud

AUBREY BEARDSLEY ~ DREAMS

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“Dreams” 1894 by Aubrey Beardsley (1872 – 1898)

“Poor Aubrey: I hope he will get all right. He brought a strangely new personality to English art, and was a master in his way of fantastic grace, and the charm of the unreal. His muse had moods of terrible laughter. Behind his grotesques there seemed to lurk some curious philosophy…”
Oscar Wilde (The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde)

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