“He alone is great and happy who fills his own station of independence, and has neither to command nor to obey.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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White. Massachusetts, 2017. TW
Doubt | Quote
“You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Snow flakes. Maine, 2013. TW
Observation and expression | Quote
“There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.”
William Osler
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Light in the park. New York City, 2012. TW
Pain - (losing) originality - (losing) empathy | Quote
“Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him.”
Alphonse Daudet
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Ice patterns, on rock. Mount desert island, 2018. TW
Life & Death | Quote
“While I thought I have been learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
Leonardo da Vinci
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Fallen leaf. Construction site, 2017. TW
Beauty | Quote
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
David Hume
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Pink shoelaces. Maine, 2016. TW
Human - world | Quote
“The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.”
Horace Walpole
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Old town. Damascus, 2010. TW
(Truth) | Quote
“Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth.”
Benedictus de Spinoza
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Badlands. South Dakota, 2018. TW
Earth | Quote
“If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.”
Galileo Galilei
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Rock formations, black and white. South Dakota, 2018. TW
Fire and ice | Quote
“Peace I do not find, and I have no wish to make war; and I fear and hope, and burn and am of ice.”
Petrarch
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Ice patterns, on rock. Mount desert island, 2018. TW
Home | Quote
“But do not ask me where I am going,
As I travel in this limitless world,
Where every step I take is my home.”
Dogen
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Desert view. Monument valley, 2019. TW
Art - (rules) | Quote
“There is no “must” in art, because art is free.”
Wassily Kandinsky
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Window with mist. Damascus, 2011. TW
Freedom | Quote
““He is a slave.” His soul, however, may be that of a freeman. “He is a slave.” But shall that stand in his way? Show me a man who is not a slave; one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear.”
Seneca
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Flying. Rhode Island, 2016. TW
Music | Quote
“Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Revelation. Utah, 2016. TW
Seeing/experiencing & meaning | Quote
“It’s not what you look at … , it’s what you see”.
Henry David Thoreau
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Skylight. House, 2018. TW
Judgement | Quote
“Nice distinctions are troublesome.”
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
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Lines, flower. Damascus, 2011. TW
Darkness & light | Quote
“When it's dark enough, you can see the stars.”
Thomas Carlyle | Charles A. Beard
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Starry sky. Monument valley, 2019. TW
The sea | Quote
“There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea”.
Gibran Khalil Gibran
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Ocean and rocks. Maine, 2018. TW
Art - minimalism | Quote
“It seems that perfection is attained, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away”.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Fallen leaf. Construction site, 2017. TW
Nature | Quote
“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.”
Walt Whitman
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Rocky coast. Mount desert island, 2019. TW