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FERNANDO PESSOA ~ AN AWARENESS OF FEELING

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Dreams by Frederic William Burton and a quote by Fernando Pessoa

Some Wisdom by Fernando Pessoa

From The Book of Disquiet written by Fernando Pessoa. (1888-1935)

“What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child.”

 Dreams

Frederic William Burton (1816-1900)
Dreams
Watercolor and body color over
-1861

 

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HENRI ROUSSEAU ~ PAINTER OF EXOTIC DREAMS

in Quoting the Artist ~ Thoughts and Thinking... by
painter Henri Rousseau

The exotic world of Henri Rousseau

“When…I see the strange plants of exotic lands, it seems to me that I enter into a dream.”

Henri Rousseau (1844-1910)

Henri Rousseau one of France’s best realist painters?

It is very funny that Rousseau painted all these exotic landscapes while he never Keep Reading

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GUSTAVE COURBET ~ BEAUTY

“Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.” ―

ANAIS NIN ~ ON DREAMS

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“Dreams are necessary to life”
Anais Nin

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DOROTHEA TANNING ~ ON ART

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“Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity”

Dorothea Tanning

(1910-2012)

Some Roses and their Phantoms, 1952
Dorothea Tanning

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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,

ODILON REDON ~ THE MISTY OUTLINE OF A HUMAN FORM

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“The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.”
Unknown

Painting
Odilon Redon – 1840-1916
I saw above the misty outline of a human form – 1896

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HARUKI MURAKAMI ~ HUGE COSMIC LOVE

“Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that

ANDREW WYETH ~ PAINTINGS CREATED SUBCONSCIOUSLY

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I dream a lot. I do more painting when I’m not painting. It’s in the subconscious.

Andrew Wyeth

Bird’s nest

Andrew Wyeth Pennsylvania, USA – 12th of July, 1917 /2009
Famous Andrew Wyeth paintings include realist works of rural scenes, usually with a figure, object, or animal in it. His unusual compositions tend to add to the understated drama of his work.

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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,

LANGSTON HUGHES ~ ON DREAMS

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DREAMS

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967 / Missouri/The United States)

Drawing of Langston Hughes by Winold Reiss

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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

SHAW ~ ON DREAMS AND REALITY

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You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’”

George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950

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PIET MONDRIAAN ~ EVOLUTION

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“The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.”
anonymus

“Evolution” 1910 – 1911 by Piet Mondriaan
Dutch (1872 – 1944)

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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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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,

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