“Happiness…not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour.”
– Walt Whitman
Photo – Kirk Douglas, 1953
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Category Archives: Art and words
Real generosity
“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
– Albert Camus
Vincent van Gogh
One day
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
– Sigmund Freud
Christen Dalsgaard
New lands
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
– Andre Gide
Art – Catrin Welz-Stein
Borders
“I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing: when both have fallen in love but still haven’t said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing.”
– Tove Jansson, Moominvalley in November
Egon Schiele
The Bluest Eye
“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.”
– Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye
Art – Illustration for “Swan Lake,” by Gabriel Pacheco
The helpful thought
“The helpful thought for which you look is written somewhere in a book.”
– Edward Gorey
Alone
“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”
– Orson Welles
Nadia Attura – Cactus Nights
Pain
“Pain doesn’t destroy language: it changes it. What is difficult is not impossible.”
– Anne Boyer
Alphonse Mucha – Studio photography
Inside…
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
– Carl G. Jung
Art by William Degouve De Nuncques.
