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“Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.” —Théophile Gautier

If it’s true beauty is more than skin-deep
Is it in fat’s, muscle’s, nerve’s, or bone’s keep
Does beauty through the human form seep
Pooling deep as dreams in duvets of sleep

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread

D. H. Lawrence

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“Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.” ―Mason Cooley


Ghosts fear it. Crooks smell it. Clowns wear it. Mimes yell it. Painters smear it.

“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”

Joan Miro


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“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.” ―Ludwig Wittgenstein


A body of art is illuminated from the inside, or the outside is just another pretty hide.

“It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.”

Epictetus

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“This universe can well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one’s mother tongue.” —Tahar Ben Jelloun

If we spoke with one tongue, would civilization be civil?

“If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.” –Paloma Faith

Glass Imagery 1In the beginning, out of darkness blooms a picture-perfect day in a garden of beauty’s light. By the weekend, though, it’s afterglow, and before you can say fig leaf, dark.

An age is called dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people fail to see it.” –James A. Michener

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“Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.” –Alan Ball quote

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“Keep it simple stupid.” – Kelly Johnson quote

The Art of O

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“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.” –Lao Tzu quote

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