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The Illusion of Luxury: Kathy Dalwood’s Secret Society– A Sculptural Banquet
© tropicalart77 with CCLicense British sculptor Kathy Dalwood is well known for her architectural sculpture, having designed planters and other items for the home. Her latest project, Secret Society–...
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Quote for Today: John Geddes
© elemental-fire with CCLicense I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion – can you understand that? ― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
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Quote for Today: Henri Nouwen
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. –Henri Nouwen
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Quote for Today: Colin Thiele
© Carol Von Canon with CCLicense A magpie can be happy or sad: sometimes so happy that he sits on a high, high gum tree and rolls the sunrise around in his throat like beads of pink sunlight; and...
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The Outsider as a Mirror: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
© Jean-Michel Baud with CCLicense Outsiders inspire fear and enchantment. What does our reaction to those who are different say about us and our beliefs? Literature and film contain shining examples of...
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Wondrous and Disturbed: In the Realms of the Unreal
We read everyday of outsiders who become violent. Here is the story of an outsider who found another way: art. Henry Darger, Storm Brewing © Confetta with CCLicense When Henry Darger passed away in...
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Painting the Face of the Arab Spring: Street Art of Tripoli, Beirut, and Cairo
Cairo, Egypt © Jairo Londono with CCLicense Art starts conversations and inspires thought that frightens tyrants. What is the future of art in a society in transition? Beirut, Lebanon Synkroniciti is...
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Voice of Shadows: Mariza’s Cavaleiro Monge
© José Goulão with CCLicense This is quite simply one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. If you are familiar with Portuguese fado, you are aware of the passion, powerful voice and striking...
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Quote for Today: Marcel Marceau
© Erling Mandelmann with CCLicense I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried...
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Mud and Consciousness: The Works of Alexandra Engelfriet
© Oven Fresh with CCLicense Have you ever felt a rush of joy when digging in the dirt or splashing through mud? There is something very primal about soil and our relationship to it. Alexandra...
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Quote for Today: Pablo Picasso
Operacion Guernica @ Hersson Piratioba with CCLicense Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is...
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Quote for Today: Isadora Duncan
CC Licensed Image © David Campbell Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always in my heart; it blooms at each of my steps… The Dance is love, it...
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Quote for Today: Joan Didion
Watercolor Swirls © BookMama with CCLicense Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are...
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Quote for Today: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink. –Ida Rentoul Outhwaite The Merman’s Glass House by...
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Quote for Today: Terry Tempest Williams
© svenwerk with CCLicense “Once you know that you have a voice,” Louis said, “it’s no longer the voice that matters, but what is behind the voice.” ―Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds:...
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Quote for Today: Morris West
Aboriginal “Alien” Cave Art © Waltzing Van with CCLicense Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual...
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Quote for Today: Lewis Thomas
© bad’lik amiri with CCLicense The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented...
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Art for Everyone: The Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland
© Benjamin Stone with CCLicense Founded in 1974, The Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California is a place where adults with developmental disabilities come together to follow their artistic...
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Still Growing: “Get Old” Hy Snell, 94
Some things are best with age. Meet Hy Snell, who has been painting for seven decades. At 94 he possesses only 5% of his eyesight, but he keeps working, still trying to paint the best work he has ever...
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Quote for Today: Garth Stein
I’m a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader...
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