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Rembrandt

Rembrandt: I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too. Of course you will say that I ought to be practical and ought to try and paint the way they want me to paint. Well, I will tell you a secret. I have tried and I have tried very hard, but I can't do it. I just can't do it! And that is why I am just a little crazy. - As quoted in R. V. R.: Being an Account of the Last Years and the Death of One Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn (1930) by Hendrik Willem van Loon I have j...

Clouds, Clouds, Clouds What to others a trifle appears Fills me full of smiles or tears; For double the vision my eyes do see And a double vision is always with me. With my inward eye, 'tis an old man grey. With my outward, a thistle across my way. - William Blake, on his divine imagination

In the solo exhibit The Sun in Profile: So Bright It’s Dark in Sibiu, Romania, the darkness is the result of experimenting with excessive sunlight. The exhibit took place in April 2005, co-sponsored by the C. Peter McGrath Center at the Lucian Blaga University and the Romanian-US Fulbright Commission. I initially saw this image as a backbone in the sky. Then faces began to emerge.

In response to a question about changes in publishing, I surfed the web and came across, by chance these quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson. How's this? There's a lot that's good about change. But one thing not to forget, Emerson had down pat: The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it. In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life - no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground - ...

Margaret A. Harrell

Rembrandt

W. Blake – Clouds

Faces in Jet Blue-Black Cloud

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes