Courage is grace under pressure.
—Ernest Hemingway
22 February 2014
18 February 2014
Courage is found in unlikely places.
—J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
16 February 2014
14 February 2014
Immature love says "I love you because I need you." Mature love says "I need you because I love you."
—Erich Fromm (1900-1980)
13 February 2014
Tiny collages…
Santa Rosa, California
Colin Talcroft is an artist, photographer, winemaker, beekeeper, avid bird-watcher, and blogger (when he’s not busy translating Japanese financial research into English, his main paying job). He’s also into music, reading, travel, fine food, and serendipitous art… I know him through Facebook, where our interests cross paths on occasion.
Since last summer, Colin’s been playing with acrylic paints, mono-printing and collage. Shown above are a few of his experimental pieces… see more here.
12 February 2014
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
—Dr. Seuss (aka Theodor Seuss Geisel), 1904-1991
11 February 2014
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
—Carl Jung, 1917, On the Psychology of the Unconciousness
10 February 2014
Save our planet…
Munich, Germany
Austrian-born Horst Haitzinger is one of Germany’s most prolific political caricature artists, well-known for his robust brushstroke-style as well as his sarcastic irony. The watercolour illustrations shown above are from his 1989 book Globetrottel.
9 February 2014
Truth is a pathless land. Man cannot come to it through any organisation, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)
8 February 2014
Meanwhile, in 1940s Britain…
Leicester, UK
Cutting-edge adverts and shapely graphic art feed the seemingly insatiable post-war appetite for fine-denier nylon stockings…