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'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'

'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.

'I don't much care where...' said Alice.

'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.

'...so long as I get somewhere,' Alice added as an explanation.


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≈≈ One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take. It is going to be a huge hit.

~ René Burri ~ Swiss photographer 1933-


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≈≈ What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

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


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≈≈ In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

~ Emile Zola ~ French novelist 1840-1902


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≈≈ Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.

~ Paul Gauguin ~ French painter 1848-1903


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≈≈ It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

~ Salvador Dali ~ Spanish artist 1904-1989


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≈≈ Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue that can be the wing of a bug or a thought. It makes our invisible visible.

~ Squeak Carnwath ~ American artist 1947-



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≈≈ Art is limitation. The essence of every picture is the frame.

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


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≈≈ Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

~ Wallace Stevens ~ American Modernist poet 1879-1955


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≈≈ To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

~ Paul Valery ~ French poet & philosopher 1871-1945


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≈≈ Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

~ Tennessee Williams ~ American playwright 1911-1983


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≈≈ I work with nature, although in completely new terms.


~ Bridget Riley ~ English painter 1931-



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≈≈ Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.

~ Alain de Botton ~ Swiss-born writer, philospher & cultural commentator 1969-


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≈≈ A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.

~ Henry Moore ~ British artist & sculptor 1898-1986


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≈≈ Sticking to the same subject is a kind of constraint and discipline that can deepen the exploration.

~ Alice Dustin ~ American painter


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≈≈ If you scrutinize reality closely enough — if, in some way, you really, really get to it — it becomes fantastic.

~ Diane Arbus ~ American photographer 1923-1971



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≈≈ An object never serves the same function as its image – or its name.

~ Rene Magritte ~ Belgian surrealist artist 1898-1967



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≈≈ This is the most interesting period for artists. Never before has so much diversity been acceptable. Never before has so much information been readily available to aspiring artists. All you need to do is connect.

~ Paul Foxton ~ Contemporary British painter


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