Persistent illusion

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein

The element of surprise

Art must take reality by surprise.
Francoise Sagan

Jazz quote

If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.
Charlie Parker

Risk

Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.
Jean Helion

A reminder

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet
and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran

Introduction to Poetry

I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.

Billy Collins

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Anton Chekhov

A task

To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.
Theophile Gautier

The past

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
Edward Thomas

Green

I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
Pablo Picasso

Poetry

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Vincent van Gogh

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.
Jean-Francois Millet

Autumn's almost here

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus

A poem

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

Edna St.Vincent Millay

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
Camille Pissarro

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.
Immanuel Kant

Beauty

Beauty will save the world.
Dostoevsky

100!

Hi there, dear readers. I am happy to announce that this blog reached its hundredth post, I wish to thank you all for contributing with your comments, I've really enjoyed our conversations here.
And i have a proposition for you that could be interesting.
The idea is that in this one post we change sides - you send your favorite quotes, thoughts, verses and i comment them. Don't worry, it will be just this once :)
Looking forward to see what you got for me...

The canvas

The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.
Kakuzo Okakura

The mood of a stil life

I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.
Giorgio Morandi

The road

When you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
Lewis Carrol

Originality

The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new,
but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Security

Most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth. In this way they have a certain security...
We, however, are not prisoners.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The size of an idea

There is a right physical size for every idea.
Henry Moore

Freedom

You are free and that is why you are lost.
Franz Kafka

In motion

People in motion are wonderful to photograph. It means catching the right moment... when one thing changes into something else.
Andre Kertesz

A large part of the beauty of a picture arises from the struggle which an artist wages with his limited medium.
Henri Matisse

I am back!

And it is good to be back.
Let's move on with this blog!

I will be back soon

I had a lot of things to do in this last few weeks and it was almost impossible to reach internet and post something. But it seems that after this week i will get my free time back.
Ambera and Cecile, thanks for the lovely comments in the previous post!