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FRIDA KAHLO ~ ON PAINTING

Art · Reflection

FRIDA KAHLO ~ ON PAINTING

“The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.” Frida Kahlo

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HOPPER ~ ON GREAT ART

Art · Reflection

HOPPER ~ ON GREAT ART

“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.” Edward Hopper

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SCHOPENHAUER ~ ON BEING AN AUTHOR

Literature · Reflection

SCHOPENHAUER ~ ON BEING AN AUTHOR

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. Arthur Schopenhauer

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ANAIS NIN ~ ON FRIENDSHIP

Art · Reflection

ANAIS NIN ~ ON FRIENDSHIP

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” Anais Nin

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KAFKA ~ CREATE WITH PASSION

Literature · Reflection

KAFKA ~ CREATE WITH PASSION

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.” Franz Kafka Photo Kafka Museum

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PABLO NERUDA ~ ON HIS POETRY

Poetry · Reflection

PABLO NERUDA ~ ON HIS POETRY

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. ~Pablo Neruda, quoted in Wall Street Journal,, 14 November 1985

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CHAGALL ~ ON TALENT

Art · Reflection

CHAGALL ~ ON TALENT

“My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.” Marc Chagall

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MARGUERITE YOURCENAR ~ INTELLECTUALISM

Literature · Reflection

MARGUERITE YOURCENAR ~ INTELLECTUALISM

“…and I reminded myself that the reproach of intellectualism is often directed at the most sensitive natures, those most ardently alive, those obliged by their frailty or their excess of strength constantly to resort to the arduous disciplines of the mind.” Marguerite Yourcenar

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MARGUERITE YOURCENAR ~ KNOWING YOURSELF

Literature · Reflection

MARGUERITE YOURCENAR ~ KNOWING YOURSELF

“The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.” Marguerite Yourcenar (Memoirs of Hadrian)

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