Art · Reflection
ODILON REDON ~ THE MONSTER
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality… true art lies in a reality that is felt.” The Monster Odilon Redon
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Art · Reflection
ODILON REDON ~ ON HIS ORIGINALITY
My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible. Odilon Redon Profil de Lumiere
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Art · Reflection
ODILON REDON ~ MAGICAL PAINTER
Born: 1840, Bordeaux, France Died: 1916, Paris, France Odilon Redon was mainly self-taught as a painter. He lived in Bordeaux and Paris. Until he was in his fifties he worked almost exclusively in black and white, in charcoal drawings and lithographs. In 1867 he exhibited an etch
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Art · Reflection
LEE MILLER ~ QUOTE
“Other people tend to value you the way you value yourself,” Lee Miller Portrait of Lee Miller ca. 1930
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Poetry · Reflection
JOHN KEATS ~ ON POETRY
Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ~John Keats
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Art · Reflection
MAN RAY ~ IMAGINATION
“I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.” Man Ray
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Literature · Reflection
ANAIS NIN ~ MEANING OF LIFE
“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.” Anais Nin
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Art · Reflection
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE ~ ON INDIVIDUALITY
“I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.” Georgia O’Keeffe
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GEORGIA O’KEEFFE ~ ON INDIVIDUALITY
“I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.” Georgia O’Keeffe
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Reflections · Reflection
“DEAD OR ALIVE” BY MONIQUE LUCY WEBERINK
“Dead or alive” by Monique Lucy Weberink Blue Feeling Series, about sad feelings in live…
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