The journal
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Art · Reflection
The Depths of the Sea (1887) by Sir Edward Burne-Jones Two weighless figures are buoyed up by the water surrounding them in this unusual underwaterview. Pre-Raphaelite painters such as Burne-Jones were fascinated with drowning; this preoccupution, part of a general preference for
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Art · Reflection
“The many great paintings of the world, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art. If you don’t want the pleasure of art, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don’t have a soul.”
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Literature · Essay
ANNA KARENINA BY LEO TOLSTOY Anna Karenina is definitely one of the most impressive books I know. I have read it several times and every time I seem to be able to discover something new again. Of course this has everything to do with my life experience. The first time I read it I
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Art · Reflection
“There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.” Georges Braque
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Literature · Reflection
“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.” Anais Nin
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Poetry · Reflection
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. ~W. Somerset Maugham
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Art · Reflection
“I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” Woody Allen
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Poetry · Reflection
“It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.” ~W.H. Auden
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Art · Reflection
“Your mind is like a parachute… it functions only when open” Frank Zappa
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Literature · Reflection
Alice Liddell, 1870 (Alice in Wonderland) Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879)
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Art · Reflection
“Coppelius and Coppelia” after the famous story by Hoffmann. (1903-1904) by Leon Bakst Bakst was born January 27 [February 8, New Style], 1866, St. Petersburg, Russia, he died December 28, 1924, Paris, France His original name was Lev Samoylovich Rosenberg, a Russian artist who r
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Art · Reflection
The Posts (1910) by Leon Spilliaert (Belgian 1881-1946)
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