a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
This famous quotation from Gertrude Stein’s poem “Sacred Emily”, was parodied by Ernest Hemingway: “a stone is a stein is a rock is a boulder is a pebble.”
Photograph by Rene Stoeltie
January 3, 2015
If all the bearded “dudes” of today had his brain…
Quote of the day:
“Love is a serious mental disease”
PLATO
Greek philosopher, BC 427-BC 347
January 3, 2015
Swaying Chandeliers & Indian Magic!
THE MUSIC ROOM by SATYAJIT RAY
I saw this film many years ago with my late husband Gilles, a French aristocrat and film buff, who took me to the many small “cinema’s” in Paris to see the most beautiful films from around the world in ORIGINAL VERSION!
January 3, 2015
Phoenix, not in Arizona…
In Greek mythology, a “phoenix” or phenix (φοῖνιξ phoinix) is a long-lived bird that is cyclically regenerated or reborn. Associated with the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor.
The Phoenix
Etching and Drypoint by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1658
Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes. Read the rest of this entry »
January 2, 2015
Not just the wife of…
DOROTHEA TANNING
Dorothea Tanning, the 34 year companion of the Surrealist painter Max Ernst, was a fantastic painter in her own right.
Photograph by Robert Motherwell, 1945
Discover her life and work on:
Insomnies (Insomnias)
1957
Oil on canvas
81 1/2 x 57 1/8 in.
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
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