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Set the Soul Vibrating
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Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
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Mystery is not one of the possibilities of reality. Mystery is what is absolutely necessary in order for reality to exist.
~ René Magritte
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I don’t sculpt people, I sculpt their solitude.
~ Alberto Giacometti
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Our passing through this earth is so absurd and fleeting, that it calms me to know that I have been authentic, that I have managed to be more like myself as much as I could.
~ Frida Kahlo
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My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me — and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would more like to paint what it leaves with me.
~ Joan Mitchell
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Recalling Buddha’s Fire Sermon: “Bhikkhus, all is burning … burning with the fire of greed, with the fire of aversion, with the fire of…
