Inspiration
Sep
02
2021
“I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.” – Ruth Benedict
“I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.” – Ruth Benedict
“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.” – Claude Monet
“Whoever wants to know something about me, they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.” – Gustav Klimt
Barcelona seaside, I’m thinking of Georgia O’Keeffe tonight.
“For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.” – Alfred Stieglitz
I’ve never seen a painting with so many beautiful and delicate details. Vittore Carpaccio’s Young knight in a landscape (ca. 1505) has recently gone through full restoration at Madrid’s Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. The canvas, signed and dated by Carpaccio on a cartellino to the right of the figure, was attributed to Dürer until 1919. The motto Malo mori quam foedari (better to die than be defiled) placed beside a short-tailed weasel suggests that he may be a knight of the Order of the Ermine. A number of hypotheses have been advanced regarding the identity of the figure; the last one suggests […]
“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” – Rumi
“…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” – Vincent van Gogh
Your inner life Born of your love of life Fabric, wool, paint, clay Shaped by your hand
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