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Posts tagged ‘American haiku’
Jan 12
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Dec 11
“Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it” —Danny Kaye
Dream canvas
Weaving sand and surf
The Paint Rags
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas —Paul Cezanne
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Nov 27
“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos” —Stephen Sondheim
Heaving to
Order in chaos
Charts of art
Art is messy, art is chaos – so you need a system —Andrew Stanton
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Nov 8
“On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter” —Rumi
Master’s brush
Loaded and dripping
Flinging paint
The modern artist… is working and expressing an inner world – in other words – expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces —Jackson Pollock
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Oct 19
“I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it” —Yann Martel
An old saw
Life is a puzzle
Coping solves
Fitting in is the greatest barrier to belonging —Brene Brown
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Oct 6
“In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.” —Mickey Hart
Jeweled point
Sketching impressions
Woofers howl
The majority of the people think that noise is not music. I want to accept noise and even errors and glitches. I enjoy them ―Ryuichi Sakamoto
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Oct 2
“And the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and autumn was awakened.” ―Raquel Franco
Picture Fall
Transmuting rapture
Ink her in
She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened ―Sarah Addison Allen
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“We’ve been trying to open the gates of communication between Havana and Miami through art… It doesn’t have anything to do with politics and is only an exchange of ideas” —Jorge M. Perez
El Niño
Thawing El Norte
Breaking ice
I think that I’ve tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city —Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Jan 27
“I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango” —Christopher Columbus
No visa
No baggage to drag
Travel light
For centuries, Cuba’s greatest resource has been its people —Pico Iyer
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Nov 20
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks”—Plutarch
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