≈≈ If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.


~ Jacqueline Roque ~ ceramic shop assistant & last wife of Pablo Picasso 1927-1986


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≈≈ The greatest problem of communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.

~ George Bernard Shaw ~ Irish playwright 1856-1950


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≈≈ My current works are abstracts cunningly disguised as landscapes. It is the Canadian way.

~ Ted Godwin ~ Canadian artist 1933-



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≈≈ It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

~ Ruth St. Denis ~ American modern dancer & choreographer 1879-1968


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≈≈ Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

~ Elizabeth Bibesco ~ British poet 1897-1945



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≈≈ Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi ~ Hungarian physiologist 1893-1986)


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≈≈ The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

~ Helen Garner ~ Austrailian novelist 1942-


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≈≈ One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.

~ David Ignatow ~ American poet 1914–1997


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≈≈ It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.


~ Ariel Durant ~ American writer, philospher, historian 1898-1981


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≈≈ If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

~ Charles Lindbergh ~ American aviator 1902-1974


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≈≈ Works of art are landscapes of the mind.

~ Ted Godwin ~ Canadian artist 1933-

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≈≈ Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

~ Wayne Thiebaud ~ American artist 1920-


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≈≈ The sunflower's secret is one of hidden geometry.

~ Esther Warner Dendel ~ American artist 1910-2002


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≈≈ We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

~ T. S. Eliot ~ English poet 1888-1965


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≈≈ Most people would guess that the sun is fifty or a hundred times brighter than the moon, but it's a half million times brighter – evidence of the amazing capacity of our eyes to adjust to light and dark.

~ James Elkins ~ American art historian 1955-



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≈≈ Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.


~ Leo Rosten ~ American novelist 1908-1997


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≈≈ The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

~ Brooks Anderson ~ American painter 1957-


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≈≈ Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

~ Giorgio Morandi ~ Italian painter 1890-1964


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≈≈ I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

~ Georgia O'Keefe ~ American artist 1887-1986


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≈≈ Stroke followed stroke with the velocity of light. The movement of my hand was interrupted only by the act of changing colors.

~ Carole Katchen ~ American artist 1944-


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≈≈ Stop looking for the picturesque. Paint a hubcap in the sun.

~ Mary Moquin ~ American landscape artist


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≈≈ It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.


~ Andrew Wyeth ~ American artist 1917-



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≈≈ Curves are so emotional.

~ Piet Mondrian ~ Dutch painter 1872-1944


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≈≈ Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

~ Robert Delaunay ~ French artist 1885-1941


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≈≈ Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~ American activist & peacemaker 1929-1968



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≈≈When we locked up the house at night,
We always locked the flowers outside
And cut them off from window light.


~ Robert Frost ~ American poet 1874-1963


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≈≈ People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.


~ Edgar Degas ~ French impressionist painter 1834-1917


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≈≈ Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.


~ Rene Magritte ~ Belgian surrealist artist 1898-1967

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≈≈ I am open to everything.


~ Luciano Pavarotti ~ Italian tenor 1935-


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≈≈ How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.

~ Blaise Pascal ~ French mathematician & physicist 1623-1662


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