Posts from the ‘Art and Quotes’ Category
May 29
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May 12
“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
When there’s nothing else he’d rather do, a writer on a raft, idles on the tide. This series of picture poetry is an artist’s impressions of words which emerge from idling well.
It is better to idle well than to work poorly.
— Anon
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Apr 6
“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
To welcome this spring’s new beginning of time for every purpose under the sun, the task of the arts, like that of the sciences, is to say something about Nature.
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
— Niels Bohr
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Feb 17
“Paradox reconciles all contradictions.” ― Patrick Leigh Fermor
Creative vacuum
Cacophony of silence
All the rest is noise
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
— Niels Bohr
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Dec 31
“During the holiday season, it’s easy to forget that sometimes the best gift of all is simply the gift of time. I can’t think of anything a writer would appreciate more than being given time and space to work.” — Kate Klise
Thank you, each human reading this, for the gift of your time. May we each use the license in 2025, to work at our unique occupations, in accordance with our natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else; so that…
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each human* works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. —Plato
*On the eve of its expiration, we used 2024’s poetic license to substitute “human” for “man” in the Brainyquote. com version of the Plato quote. All genders of Platonic lovers studied at Plato’s Academy. Only the ancient Greek gods and goddesses, nymphs and satyrs, et al., and animals were excluded by the masculine noun for human. We did it, so that, some 2300 New Years hence, Plato’s tongue gets no human’s tunic in a twist.
Bonne anee!
Dec 2
“A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist’s world.” — Hans Hofmann
Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that’s what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.
— Shakira
A poem with puns in praise of a lucky lamb in a pastoral picture, and words a good shepherd lives by
A Lamb in Chic Clothing
Branded on a range not on a grill / Cooler in a pen than a pan
“It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.” ―Tiberius
“Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.” ―Elie Wiesel
Back against the edge of day, facing the abyss of night, preserving twilight.
“In the twilight, it was a vision of power.”
―Upton Sinclair
“Don’t stand so close to me” ―The Police
Picture poetry by P. Leduc & C E Sum
Social distancing gives everyone their own space, exactly what some soulmates need to stick together.
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
―William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“When I’m writing a poem or drawing, I’m not a female; I’m an artist.” ―Patti Smith
Picture Poetry by P Leduc & C E Sum
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