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JEAN DELVILLE ~ THE LOVE OF THE SOULS
The Love of the Souls, 1900, Brussels. Jean Delville This painting is based on the philosophy of Plato, man and woman unite and then find back the original unity of the androgen.
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ANAIS NIN ~ ADVENTURES OF THE MIND
‘For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration’ Anais Nin
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ALIFYA DARUWALA ~ PAINTER OF THE UNIVERSE
ARTIST AND CALLIGRAPHER ALIFYA DARUWALA Alifya loves art and drawing since childhood at an early age of 8.. “life seemed very much pleasant n fruitful when i ever knew myself to draw those landscapes at first which were purely my thoughts expressed in paintings…and that could nev
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ANAIS NIN ~ REALITY AND IMAGINATION
“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do” Anais Nin
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VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ QUOTE
“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.” Virginia Woolf
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JAMES VASZARY ~ THE GOLDEN AGE
The Golden Age James Vaszary, 1897-98 Magyar Nemzetri Galeria Budapest, Hungary Photo@Cadman 2007
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ISADORA DUNCAN
Isadora Duncan at the portal of the Parthenon, Athens, 1920 Photo by Edward Streichen (1897-1973)
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OSCAR WILDE ~ ON DREAMING
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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ANAIS NIN ~ ON LIFE
Anais Nin ” Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous”
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EDGAR ALLEN POE ~ ON DREAMING
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” Edgar Allen Poe
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Jean Delville ~ Madame Stuart Merril
Portrait of Madame Stuart Merrill, 1892
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Jean Delville, Belgian Symbolist
Jean Delville (January 19, 1867, Leuven – 1953) was a Belgian symbolist painter, writer, and occultist. He founded the Salon d’Art Idealiste, which is considered the Belgian equivalent to the Parisian Rose & Cross Salon and the Pre-Raphaelite movement in London.
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