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“Art and love are the same thing:
It’s the process of seeing yourself
in things that are not you.”
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Chuck Klosterman
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Iris germanica ‘Secret Rites’
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“Everything you can imagine is real.”
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Pablo Picasso
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“If you ask me what I came to do in this world,
I, an artist, will answer you:
I am here to live out loud.”
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Émile Zola
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“Every child is an artist.
The problem is how to remain an artist
once he grows up.”
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Pablo Picasso
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“Art washes away from the soul
the dust of everyday life.”
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Pablo Picasso
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“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically,
but it would make no sense;
it would be without meaning,
as if you described a Beethoven symphony
as a variation of wave pressure.”
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Albert Einstein
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“When words become unclear,
I shall focus with photographs.
When images become inadequate,
I shall be content with silence.”
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Ansel Adams
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Photos by Woodland Gnome 2018
Vases by Bob Leek
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“Art is not what you see,
but what you make others see.”
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Edgar Degas
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“There are painters who transform the sun
to a yellow spot,
but there are others
who with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot
into sun”
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Pablo Picasso