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– Somerset Maugham
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Category Archives: Art and words
Winter!
“How winter fills my soul!”
– Sylvia Plath – from Three Women, 1962
Art – Cuno Amiet
Edgar Allan Poe
“Here the vast bed of waters, seamed and scarred into a thousand conflicting channels, burst suddenly into phrensied convulsion-heaving, boiling, hissing-gyrating in gigantic and innumerable vortices, and all whirling and plunging on to the eastward with a rapidity which water never elsewhere assumes except in precipitous descents.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, A Descent into the Maelstrom
Harry Clarke – illustrator for The Tales of Mystery and the Imagination
Listen!
“Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.”
– Rumi
Art by Ludwik Stasiak.
Storytelling is a big deal
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
– Antoine de Saint Exupery
Don’t build a ship. Create a yearning for the seas.
“Ideas come and go, stories stay.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We employ storytelling and growth hacking strategies and we mold these in a lovable story that also charms the search engines. Growth hacking is growing your business through creativity. And you get a website that speaks to your consumers.
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Have a most fortunate day in all your hermetic activities!
Art by Harald Slott-Møller.
Grown-ups love figures
“Grown-ups love figures… When you tell them you’ve made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you “What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? ” Instead they demand “How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? ” Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Art by George Tooker.
A Book
“There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away”
– Emily Dickinson
Art by Daniel F. Gerhartz.
Don’t be afraid
“Don’t be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.”
– Oscar Wilde
Thomas Cooper Gotch, A Night in June, 1910
Wintering
“For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Hasui Kawase (1883-1957) – Tennoji Temple in Osaka
Photography
“Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.”
– Peter Wollen
Photo credit: Selma Morgenstern – Kees Van Dongen with Brigitte Bardot, 1958