“There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.”
– Herman Melville
Art by Michael Cheval.
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Illusion
“Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.”
– Alexander Pushkin
Art ~ Danish school, 19th cent., artist and specific date unknown
Time
“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
Heraclitus
Art by Joshua Flint.
Dream
“You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.”
– Gregory Peck
Art by Brad Kunkle.
A mermaid
“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
– Anais Nin
Art by Christian Birmingham.
Fragments…
“But what a funny thing it is to travel like that, leaving little fragments of one’s heart more or less everywhere.”
– Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sarte, 16 March, 1947
Art – Tamara de Lempicka painting a portrait of her first husband Tadeusz de Lempicki, 1928
The golden bough
“If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.”
– Chinese Proverb
Art by Henry Meynell Rheam (1859-1920).
Artist of the floating world
“She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Art by Kawase Hasui.
Peacocks
“I shall always remember how the peacocks’ tails shimmered when the moon rose amongst the tall trees, and on the shady bank the emerging mermaids gleamed fresh and silvery amongst the rocks…”
Hermann Hesse – The Journey to the East
Art by Jessie Arms Botke.
Haikus in flowers
”‘They are like epiphanies, embodying all the tension and fragility of a state of grace. Small and yet hugely evocative, they are haikus in flowers. They are limitless energy barely contained in a halo of quiet. They are nature manipulated by man. Man in harmony with Nature.’’
– Toshira Kawase
Ikebana by Toshiro Kawase.
