≈≈ The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

~Carl Jung ~ Swiss psychologist 1875-1961


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≈≈ One should photograph objects, not only for what they are, but for what else they are.

~Minor White ~ American photographer 1908-1976


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≈≈ What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.

~Joan Miro ~ Spanish painter 1893-1983

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≈≈ When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

~Anton Chekhov ~ Russian physician, writer & playwright 1860-1904


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≈≈ Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

~Felix Klein ~ German mathematician 1849-1925


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≈≈ Art is the increasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.

~Marc Chagall ~ Belarusian painter 1887-1985


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≈≈ Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.

~Georgia O'Keeffe ~ American artist 1887-1986


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≈≈ At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour.

~H. P. Lovecraft ~ American fantasy & science fiction writer 1890-1937


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≈≈ Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

~Albert Schweitzer ~ German Alsatian philosopher & physician 1875 -1965

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≈≈ Psychologically speaking, to discover something mysterious in objects is a symptom of cerebral abnormality related to certain kinds of insanity.

~Giorgio de Chirico ~ Greek-Italian painter 1888-1978

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≈≈ The stones are objects for contemplation: the more you look the more you become aware of the journey each stone has made.

~Andy Goldsworthy ~ British artist 1956-


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≈≈ Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

~Anna Freud ~ Austrian psychologist 1895-1982


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≈≈ In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

~George Balanchine ~ Russian choreographer 1904-1983


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≈≈ Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

~Andre Norton ~ American science fiction & fantasy writer 1912-2005


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≈≈ The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

~W. H. Auden ~ English poet 1907-1973


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≈≈ A line is a dot that goes for a walk.

- Paul Klee ~ Swiss-German painter 1879-1940


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≈≈ I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

~Claude Chabrol ~ French director 1930-


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≈≈ Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

~Ralph Ellison ~ African-American writer 1913-1994

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≈≈ The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

~Robert Bresson ~ French photographer 1907-1999


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≈≈ Height, width and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

~Max Beckmann ~ German artist 1884-1950

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≈≈ Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

~ Kahlil Gibran ~ Lebanese poet & artist 1883-1931


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≈≈ Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame;
Each to his passion; what's in a name?

~Helen Hunt Jackson ~ American writer 1830-1885

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≈≈ I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.

~Ellsworth Kelly ~ American painter 1923-

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≈≈ People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

~ Bertolt Brecht ~ German dramatist & poet 1898-1956

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≈≈ What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

~M. C. Escher ~ Dutch artist 1898-1972

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≈≈ Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.


~Rabindranath Tagore ~ Indian poet 1861-1941

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≈≈ The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

- Lucian Freud ~ German-born British painter 1922-

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≈≈ The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

~W. H. Auden ~ English poet 1907-1973


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≈≈ Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.

~Gwendolyn Brooks ~ African American poet 1917-2000


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≈≈ Relationships are a day-to-day work of art.

~~William Shockley ~ American physicist 1910-1989


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≈≈ There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

~~G. K. Chesterton ~ English writer 1874-1936


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