Writing/Art Quotes

A Line About Summer

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I like Summer when I can sit under a tree and enjoy the light and when I find that I have enjoyed the Summer months I find myself agreeing with Shakespeare- but to be honest that doesn’t happen a lot.
I mean me not liking Summer- I like Shakespeare- and I  like these paintings too.
anita

Flowers by the Shore by August Strindberg

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” ― William Shakespeare

Summer Day, Gloucester, Massachusetts, by Willard Metcalf, 1895

 

Saturday

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“Writing is a solitary job — that is, no one can help you with it, but there’s nothing lonely about it. I have always been too busy, too immersed in what I was doing, either mad at it or laughing at it to have time to wonder whether I was lonely or not lonely. It’s simply solitary. I think there is a difference between loneliness and solitude.”
― William Faulkner at the University of Virginia

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Madness

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I thought a quote about madness was called for today.

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”
― Isaac Newton

Selfies

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For One Liner Wednesday:
I did like the idea of selfies because, as my nearest and dearest would point out ‘ you’re not really photogenic Anita’. So for the most part there aren’t a lot of pictures of me from childhood on.
Then selfies came along so I finally got to be ‘in the pictures’ and then what happens? Selfies turn into a joke and if you take them you are a self centered jerk.
However, once upon a time selfies were considered an art form and I think we need to remember that and maybe lighten the heck up when people take selfies.
So here is a quote about selfies that takes on a different vibe when you match them up to the self portraits- ( I found some great ones ) that I’ve included here.

            “No job is complete until the selfie is posted.”

                                                           Ashok Kallarakkal

 

Amrita Sher-Gil
Self-Portrait in Green” 1934

Paul Gauguin
Self portrait with mandolin