≈≈ The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.


~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~ German poet 1749- 1832



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≈≈ Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.


~ Paul Strand ~ American photographer 1890-1976


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≈≈ Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

~ Janos Bolyai ~ Hungarian mathematician 1802-1860



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≈≈ In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.


~ Carl Sagan ~ American astronomer & astrobiologist 1934-1996



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≈≈ Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.


~ Blaise Pascal ~ French philosopher 1623-1662



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≈≈ Art! Who comprehends her?
With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

~ Ludwig van Beethoven ~ German composer 1770-1827



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≈≈ Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

~ Max Beckmann ~ German painter, sculptor, writer 1884-1950


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I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.


Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre ~ French artist & chemist 1787-1851


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≈≈ When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet.

~ Chinese proverb ~



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≈≈ Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.


~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ American poet 1803-1882



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≈≈ I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.

~ Pablo Picasso ~ Spanish painter 1881-1973


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≈≈ Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take risks.

~ Mark Rothko ~ Latvian-born American painter 1903-1970


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≈≈ The man who can't visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

~ Andre Breton ~ French writer & surrealist theorist 1896-1966



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≈≈ The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

~~ Plutarch ~ Greek philospher 46-120 A.C.E.



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≈≈ Colours are brighter when the mind is open.

~ Adriana Alarcon ~ Latina-Canadian artist



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≈≈ The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.

~ e. e. cummings ~ American poet 1894-1962


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≈≈ Manipulating shadows...is like writing music or a poem.

~ Conrad Hall ~ American artist 1926-2003


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≈≈ When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.


~~ Pablo Picasso ~ Spanish artist 1881-1973



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≈≈ All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

~ Walter de La Mare ~ English poet 1873-1956


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≈≈ If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.


~ 安藤忠雄 Tadao Andō ~ Japanese architect 1941-


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≈≈ When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

~ Max Planck ~ German physicist 1858-1947


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≈≈ Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?


~ Margot Fonteyn ~ English ballerina 1919 - 1991


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≈≈ Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

~ Robert Delaunay ~ French artist 1885-1941



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≈≈ There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

~ Vincent Van Gogh ~ Netherlands artist 1853-1890



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≈≈ The obscure we see eventually. The completely apparent takes a little longer.

~ Edward R. Morrow ~ American journalist 1908-1965


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