“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses...”
― John Irving/The Cider House Rules
Parker Pfister(1968-),American photographer
Isle of Skye,Scotland,2024
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“Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time…”
-Kelsey Grammer
Harold Knight(1874-1961),English painter
At the Piano
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“What is paradise, but,a garden,an orchard of trees,flowers and herbs,full of pleasure and nothing there but delights…”
-William Lawson
𝘛𝘢𝘬𝘢𝘵𝘰 𝘠𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘰 (1960-),Japanese artist
Of Flowers and Herbs:Crimson in the Moonlight
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“God will never allow a flood in your life without providing you a boat within which the storm itself is repelled,the waves ordered calm,and the course set undeterred...”
-Craig D. Lounsbrough
Bo Bartlett(1955-),American artist
The Flood
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“And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me,I'll watch the play of the colors on the water,yield to the fleetly dissolving images,and turn into pure feeling,all soft and nice…”
-Gunter Grass
Eugen Johann Georg Klimsch(1839-1896),German painter
The Picnic
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“I don't know the world, I don't even know myself. I'm forever daydreaming and often can't tell dreams from reality...”
― Vítězslav Nezval,Czech poet,writer
Kinuko Y. Craft(1940-),Japanese-born American painter
Daydreaming
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“There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless…”
-Milan Kundera
Karin Jurick(1961-1921),American artist
Ageless
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