“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
– John Steinbeck
Art – Franz Waldegg
Warmth of summer
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Whatever one gives
“Whatever one gives, ought to be from what one would otherwise spend, not from what he would otherwise pay. To spend little and give much, is the highest glory a man can aspire to.”
– Edmund Burke
Illustration by William S. Tiffany.
How to be a good writer…
“The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species.”
– Machado de Assis, Those Cousins from Sapucaia, 1883
Henri Rousseau
An idea
As someone once said, I think it was me: There is nothing so dangerous as an idea. Particularly one whose time has come…
– Ralph Steadman
Art – Comet Halley by Vladimir Kush
What of Art?
What of Art?
-It is a malady.
–Love?
-An Illusion.
–Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
–You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
–What are you?
-To define is to limit.
– Oscar Wilde
Art by James R Eads.
Flowers
“Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.”
– Antonio Porchia
Immortality
“There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.”
– Herman Melville
Art by Michael Cheval.
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.
