le peintre

 

“I do not seek. I find.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2020.

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CRÉER C’EST SE SOUVENIR

 

“Créer c’est se souvenir…”

“To create is to remember…”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo street art taken in the Place des Vosges in Paris in May 2016.

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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 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.

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PERSPECTIVE

 

“Beauty is a delightful prejudice.”

 

~ Theocritus ~

 

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

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A DIME A DOZEN

 

 

“…i have been dealing with these kinds

  of conversations for decades,

 only the names of the instruments

   have been changed to protect the innocent…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Café de Flore in Paris in July 2014.

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PORTRAIT

 

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling

is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digital painting created in November 2020.

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THE LIBATION

 

“A gender-equal society would be one where

the word ‘gender’ does not exist:

where everyone can be themselves.”

 

~ Gloria Steinem ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 2019.

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ABSINTHE

 

“Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.”

 

~ Ethel Mumford ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of “In A Café,” a painting by Edgar Degas, taken in Paris in June 2019.

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CARNET EROTIC, PAGE ELEVEN

 

“The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.”

 

~ Jean Cocteau ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of an actual page of Jean Cocteau’s Carnet Erotic, (page eleven), taken in Paris in June 2019.

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LE TAUREAU

 

“We have invented nothing new.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

(after seeing the cave paintings of Lascaux)

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a sculpture by Ule Ewelt taken in Paris in June 2018.

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NATURE MORTE

 

“…life, by definition, is never still.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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

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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 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2018.

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MANNEQUINS

 

“A picture is a poem without words.”

 

~ Horace ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2018.

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