“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.
A mermaid
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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.
Woman with a Cat
“Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.”
– Mark Twain
Art by Géza Farago – Slim Woman with a Cat, 1913.
Oneself
“The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star; there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?”
– Oscar Wilde: De Profundis
Photography art by Annie Leibovitz.
The beginning of fairies
“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Art by Arthur Rackham.
If …
“If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go in business because we’d be cynical: “It’s gonna go wrong.” Or “She’s going to hurt me.” Or, “I’ve had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . .” Well, that’s nonsense. You’re going to miss life. You’ve got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
― Ray Bradbury
