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MAGRITTE ~ ON ART
“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.” Rene Magritte
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BRANCUSI ~ ON HIS ARTWORK
“Don’t look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.” Brancusi
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EDVARD MUNCH ~ ON PAINTING
“No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.” Edvard Munch
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ODILON REDON ~ DEATH’S HEAD
Illustrations for Le Jure by Edmond Picard Series of 7 litographs, 1887 No. 1 The wall of his room was opening up, and from the crack a death’s head was projected. Odilon Redon
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ODILON REDON ~ DEATH'S HEAD
Illustrations for Le Jure by Edmond Picard Series of 7 litographs, 1887 No. 1 The wall of his room was opening up, and from the crack a death’s head was projected. Odilon Redon
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ANAIS NIN ~ LIFE AND DEATH
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Anais Nin, “Winter of Artifice”
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ANAIS NIN ~ ON MYSTERY
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” Anais Nin
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ANAIS NIN ~ QUOTE ON DREAMS
“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” Anais Nin
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PAUL BOURGUET ~ ON DREAMS
“Dreams are but lies, says an old maxim; but when our last hour is at hand, and but a few brief minutes are left to what was I, pale lights that are fast growing dim, who can tell by what mark to distinguish you, O memories of the actual life, from you, O mirages from
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ALFRED KUBIN ~ DYING
“Sterben (Dying),” circa 1899 The Austrian artist Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) began his career just as Freud released “The Interpretation of Dreams.” Accordingly, the Neue Galerie’s “Alfred Kubin: Drawings, 1897-1909” is replete with the terrors of the freshly analyzed psyche. Photo
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CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI ~ DAUGHTER OF EVE
A Daughter of Eve A fool I was to sleep at noon, And wake when night is chilly Beneath the comfortless cold moon; A fool to pluck my rose too soon, A fool to snap my lily. My garden-plot I have not kept; Faded and all-forsaken, I weep as I have never wept: Oh it
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