≈≈ All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

~ Anatole France ~ French novelist 1844-1924


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≈≈ A spirit in my feet said "Go"- and I went.

~ Matthew Brady ~ American Civil War photographer


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≈≈ Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.


~ Richard P. Feynman ~ American physicist 1918-


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≈≈ There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

~ Buckminster Fuller ~ American visionary, architect 1895-1983


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One of life's most fulfilling moments occurs in that split second when the familiar is suddenly transformed into the dazzling
aura of the profoundly new ...
These breakthroughs are too infrequent, more uncommon than common; and we are mired most of the time in the mundane and the trivial. The shocker: what seems mundane and trivial is the very stuff that discovery is made of. The only difference is our perspective, our readiness to put the pieces together in an entirely new way and to see patterns where only shadows appeared just a moment before.

~ Edward B. Lindaman ~ American educator
? - 1982

182.5 = half the distance to 365!

≈≈ The picture must radiate light, the bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from outside.

~ Egon Schiele ~ Austrian painter 1890-1918


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≈≈ I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas. I just think about it.


~ Steven Wright ~ American stand-up comedian 1955-


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≈≈ Our whole life is solving puzzles.


~ Erno Rubik ~ Hungarian inventor 1944-


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≈≈ Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.


~ Henry Ward Beecher ~ American clergyman 1813-1887


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≈≈ A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright ~ American architect 1867-1959


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≈≈ I am two with Nature.

~ Woody Allen ~ American director 1935-


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≈≈ I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.


~ Robert Mapplethorpe ~ American photograper 1946-1989


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≈≈ When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

~ Ansel Adams ~ American photographer 1902-1984


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≈≈ A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

~ Michelangelo ~ Italian sculptor, painter, poet, etc. 1475-1564


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≈≈ If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

~ Neil Simon ~ American playwright 1927-


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≈≈ Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

~ T. S. Eliot ~ American (naturalised British) poet 1888-1965


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≈≈ What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

~ Max Beckmann ~ German artist 1884-1950


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≈≈ The dance of the future will no longer be concerned with meaningless dexterities of the body.


~ Ruth St. Denis ~ American choreographer 1878-1968



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≈≈ Why is it called "after dark" when it really is "after light"?

~ George Carlin ~ American stand-up comedian 1937-


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≈≈ The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.

~ Ursula K. LeGuin ~ American author 1929-


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≈≈ What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.

Erwin Schrodinger ~ Austrian physicist 1887-1961


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≈≈ The book took me over the walls of the safe, sheltered enclave of my own existence into unmapped territory of the imagination.

~ Loranne Brown ~ Canadian author 1955-


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≈≈ I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.


~ Georgia O'Keeffe ~ American painter 1887-1986


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≈≈ There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

~ Richard Dawkins ~ British evolutionary biologist 1941-


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≈≈ Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

~Salvador Dali ~ Spanish-Catalan artist 1904-1989


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≈≈ Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.

~ Milton Avery ~ American artist 1885-1965


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≈≈ One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

~ Henry Miller ~ American author 1891-1980


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≈≈ I've been fascinated with still life objects. To me, they exist in a special world of their own – a world where time stops and there is just light and shadow, texture and color.

~ Janie Gildow ~ whoever she might be.....


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≈≈ Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art.

~ Kenneth Clark ~ English art historian 1903-1983

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≈≈ Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

~ Tom Stoppard ~ English dramatist 1937-



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