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FRANK ZAPPA ~ ON THE MIND

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“Your mind is like a parachute… it functions only when open”

Frank Zappa

MAN RAY ~ ON PAINTERS

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“To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.”
Man Ray

Self portrait with chess set

FRIDA KAHLO ~ ON PAINTING

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“The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.”

Frida Kahlo

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER ~ ON INTELLIGENCE

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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Arthur Schopenhauer

ANAIS NIN ~ ON FRIENDSHIP

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“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anais Nin

ANAIS NIN ~ POETICAL HAPPINESS

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“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”
Anais Nin

MILLAIS ~ ON MATURITY

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

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



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]

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