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SALVADOR DALI ~ ON SURREALISM
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.” Salvador Dali
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ANAIS NIN ~ ON LOVE
“Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.” Anais Nin
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ANAIS NIN ~ UNCONSCIOUS DREAMS
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.” Anais Nin
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GEORGE SAND ~ ON LOVE
“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” George Sand
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LOVIS CORINTH ~ THE VIOLINIST
“The Violinist” 1900 by Lovis Corinth (1858-1925)
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MY LADY CHATELAINE ~ POEM BY COLIN DEMET
MY LADY CHATELAINE Through the mists inside the darkest night Be I strolled as a fool may do I came upon a lonely place Where images were few. The breeze was cold … Hold a humming sigh … Ghosts haunting, whispering, lullaby. Murky dew-drops ice bite kiss Frosty white my trembling
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LA FOLIE OR BEING CRAZY
“La Folie” Odilon Redon “A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?” Albert Einstein
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CARL JUNG – ON DREAMS
“Dreams are specific expressions of the unconscous which have a definite, purposeful structure indicating an underlying idea or intention. The general function of dreams is to restore one’s total psychic equlilibrium. They tend to play a complementary or compensatory role in our
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RODIN ~ EYE AND HAND
Lovers’ Hands 1904, Marble Auguste Rodin “Light serves, in conformity with depressions and reliefs, to give the eye the same sensation that the hand receives from touch.” Auguste Rodin, from Rodin: The Man and his Art, with Leaves from his Notebook by J. Cladel
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EDVARD MUNCH ~ ETERNITY
Harpy, Litograph 1899-1900 Edvard Munch (1863-1944) “From my Rotting Body, Flowers shall grow and I am in them: this is Eternity.” Edvard Munch Edvard Munch
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DORA MAAR – PICASSO’S MUSE
A constant influence in Picasso’s life was the painter Dora Maar, with whom he had a parallel relationship (the closest was in 1930’s). She featured as his Muse in most of his Abstract Works and was responsible for documenting his most famous work “Guernica.” After the liberation
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DORA MAAR – PICASSO'S MUSE
A constant influence in Picasso’s life was the painter Dora Maar, with whom he had a parallel relationship (the closest was in 1930’s). She featured as his Muse in most of his Abstract Works and was responsible for documenting his most famous work “Guernica.” After the liberation
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