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"Flaubert believed it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another & great paintings required no words of explanation.Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting.But we are very far from reaching that state.We remain incorrigibly verbal creatures who love to explain things, to form opinions.It is a rare picture which stuns,or argues, us into silence." Jan 21, 2026 08:47AM

 
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Kobayashi Issa
“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
Kobayashi Issa, Poems

Rita Mae Brown
“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
Rita Mae Brown

Voltaire
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
Voltaire

Albert Schweitzer
“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
Albert Schweitzer

John Keats
“Touch has a memory.”
John Keats

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