the painter

 

“Painting is silent poetry.”

 

~ Plutarch ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Gregos taken in Paris in September 2017.

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an absence of luminosity

 

“I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.”

 

~ Louis Daguerre ~

 

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dix mots

 

“Lying is the most fun a woman can have

without taking her clothes off.”

 

~ Natalie Portman ~

 

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le penseur

 

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

 

~ Voltaire ~

 

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girl with a rose

 

“Love is like a rose. When pressed between

two lifetimes, it will last forever.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2015.

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le peintre

 

“I do not seek. I find.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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rough-hewn

 

“The sculptor’s hand can only break the spell

to free the figures slumbering in the stone.”

 

~ Michelangelo ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2019.

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des couleurs dans ma vie

 

“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.

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a study of hands

 

“My life is light, waiting for the death wind,

Like a feather on the back of my hand.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Picasso’s Étude des Mains (Study Of Hands) painted in Paris in the spring of 1921 taken in le Musée national Picasso–Paris in May 2015.

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gertrudian

 

“There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistence.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the garden outside of Gertrude Stein’s apartment at 29 Rue de Fleurus taken in Paris in July 2013.

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le poids

 

“The burden of the incommunicable.”

 

~ Thomas de Quincey ~

 

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make art not war

 

“Art holds fast when all else is lost.”

 

~ German Proverb ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

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the fragment of a tear

 

“Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates

the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”

 

~ Carlo M. Cipolla ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

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embonpoint

 

“I know my breasts, small as plums, would win no blue ribbons.

But in your hands they tremble and fill with song like plump, white birds.”

 

~ Cecilia Llompart ~

 

Digitally enhanced and colourised image created from an analog black and white photo taken in November 1981.

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immortality

 

“A book is the only immortality.”

 

~ Rufus Choate ~

 

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MISSED THIS ONE TOO

 

“A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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LA COULEUR DE LA VIE

 

“Life is about using the whole box of crayons.”

 

~ RuPaul ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.

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TALK TALK

 

“Many talk as easily as they breathe,

and with quite as little thought.”

 

~ James Lendall Basford ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.

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IN THE FLICKERING LIGHT

 

“If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how

people were depicted inside nature, not outside it.

It was a kind of dream time…”

 

~ Gregory Colbert ~

 

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PERSPECTIVE

 

“Beauty is a delightful prejudice.”

 

~ Theocritus ~

 

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