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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a stick figure scrawl

 

 

 

“It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.”

 

~ Paul Cezanne ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.

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le peintre du printemps

 

“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”

 

~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2021.

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dreamcanvas

 

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die,

life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

 

~ Langston Hughes ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in France in June 2006.

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conspirators

 

“Poems are like dreams:

in them you put what you don’t know you know.”

 

~ Adrienne Rich ~

 

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

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rainbow’s end

 

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how

rainbows are made and why they go away.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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

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canvas

 

“How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!”

 

~ A. A. Milne ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 2011.

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solitude descending

 

“Man loves company even if it is only

that of a small burning candle.”

 

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken sometime in 1989.

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it’s all done with mirrors

 

“The world is the mirror of myself dying.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

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

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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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printemps

 

“She turned to the sunlight and shook her yellow head,

and whispered to her neighbor: “Winter is dead.”

 

~ A.A. Milne ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2016.

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shadow and light

 

“Wherever there is light, look for the shadow.

The shadow is me.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.

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the deception

 

“So much of life, it seems to me,

is determined by pure randomness.”

 

~ Sidney Poitier ~

 

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

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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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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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PIGMENTS OF MY IMAGINATION

 

“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”

 

~ Marianne Moore ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2017.

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FLESH AND BONE

 

“We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth;

and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.”

 

~ Virginia Woolf ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a X-ray created by RZFW in February 2016.

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A STICK FIGURE SCRAWL

 

“It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.”

 

~ Paul Cezanne ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.

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STOLEN WORDS

 

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Spring 2002.

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LE PEINTRE DU PRINTEMPS

 

“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”

 

~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2021.

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