I had rather see the portrait of a cat that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

~ Samuel Johnson ~ English author 1709-1784





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Have a much fun as you can and don't feel that the edge of your canvas confines you – let your vision go right on.


~ Charles Webster Hawthorne ~ American painter 1872-1930




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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

~ Douglas Adams ~ English writer 1952-2001






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nostalgia for a lost afternoon





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fanlight




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Fate is written in the face.

~ Federico Fellini ~ Italian director 1920-1993




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The wall around the window does not create two worlds.

~ Henri Matisse ~ French artist 1869-1954




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Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

~ Katherine Dunn ~ American novelist 1945~




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Architecture in general is frozen music.

~ Friedrich von Schelling ~ German philosopher 1775-1854




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Morning Becomes Electric




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Mourning Becomes Electra




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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterwards you can remove all traces of reality. There's no danger then, anyway, because the idea of the object will have left an indelible mark.

~ Pablo Picasso ~ Spanish artist 1881-1973




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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.


~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ American poet 1803-1882







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Pictures must not be too picturesque.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ American author 1803-1882




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crisscross




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Experience is a riverbed,
Its source hidden, forever flowing:
Its entrance, the root of the world,
The Way moves within it:
Draw upon it; it will not run dry.

~ Dao De Jing 道德经 6th Century BC






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accidental abstraction




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Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.


~ Remy de Gourmont ~ French novelist 1858-1915




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light-attracted beings




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