My soul is full of longing
for the secret of the sea,
and the heart of the great ocean
sends a thrilling pulse through me.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Photo: John Payne
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I’ve never been lonely…I’m the best form of entertainment I have.” CHARLES BUKOWSKI
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…our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” M. SCOTT PECK
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There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.” GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
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Going around under an umbrella interferes with one’s looking up at the sky.” JERZY KOSINSKI
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“If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something.” FEDERICO FELLINI
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Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.” FRANZ MARC, German Expressionist painter
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