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PAUL DELVAUX ~ ON SURREALISM

in Art & the Unconscious Mind by

Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but in a very particular sense, that of the strange and illogical.

PAUL DELVAUX, lecture, 1966

“The Man in the Street”

Paul Delvaux

EMILY BRONTE ~ DREAMS

in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Emily Bronte
English writer 1818-1848

STOKOWSKI ~ ON ART

in The Melody of Art by

A painter paints pictures on canvas.  But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

~Leopold Stokowski

MICHAEL CAINE ~ ON ART

in Just a bit of everything and everyone... by

“I know the value of money, and I know the value of art. If you have enough money, you buy it.”

Michael Caine

DALI ~ ON REALITY

in Art & the Unconscious Mind by

“One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.”
Salvador Dali

BRANCUSI ~ ON HIS ARTWORK

in Just a bit of everything and everyone... by

“Don’t look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy
that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those
closest to God have seen them.”

Brancusi

EDVARD MUNCH ~ ON PAINTING

in Just a bit of everything and everyone... by

“No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.”

Edvard Munch

ESCHER ~ ON WORK

in Passion Of Art by

“My work is a game, a very serious game.”

Escher

ANAIS NIN ~ ON MYSTERY

in Art & the Unconscious Mind by

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
Anais Nin

TOLSTOY ~ WRITER AND HIS SOUL

in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.”

Tolstoy

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