Many painters have taken their inspiration from the female form, but Jules Breton is unique. Trained in the European classical tradition, or "grand style" as he called it, he returned home to rural Brittany to produce his masterpieces. His subjects were not grand dames or famous historical scenes as was usual for the period and … Continue reading Picturing Woman: Paintings of Jules Breton
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Quote for Today: Waylon Lewis
I would like to hold your hand as it holds this green leaf, yellowed, that fell early from its tree, this Autumn. And I would like to imagine that it feels your careful care, for your eyes are warmed by your heart, and I would let you sadly nestle into me as a bird folds … Continue reading Quote for Today: Waylon Lewis
Quote for Today: Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chillest land, And … Continue reading Quote for Today: Emily Dickinson
Quote for Today: Victoria Aveyard
The thing with heat is, no matter how cold you are, no matter how much you need warmth, it always, eventually, becomes too much. ―Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Quote for Today: Lynne Truss
There is an old German fable about porcupines who need to huddle together for warmth, but are in danger of hurting each other with their spines. When they find the optimum distance to share each others' warmth without putting each others' eyes out, their state of contrived cooperation is called good manners. Well, those old … Continue reading Quote for Today: Lynne Truss
Quote for Today: Frances Hodgson Burnett
“Listen to th’ wind wutherin’ round the house,” she said. “You could bare stand up on the moor if you was out on it tonight.” Mary did not know what “wutherin’” meant until she listened, and then she understood. It must mean that hollow shuddering sort of roar which rushed round and round the house … Continue reading Quote for Today: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Quote for Today: M.F.K. Fisher
It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and … Continue reading Quote for Today: M.F.K. Fisher
Quote for Today: Rob Sheffield
On the way we talked about the road sign Bridge Ices Before Road. I always wondered, If that's a problem, why don't they just build the bridge out of the same stuff they use to build the road? Drema explained that the bridge isn't made out of different material than the road, but that the … Continue reading Quote for Today: Rob Sheffield
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
If there is a hard, high wall and an egg that breaks against it, no matter how right the wall or how wrong the egg, I will stand on the side of the egg. Why? Because each of us is an egg, a unique soul enclosed in a fragile egg. Each of us is confronting … Continue reading Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
Look at the Beautiful Noise: Noise Photography and Jeff Ascough
We often feel we must choose between representation of the external and expression of the internal. Can't we enjoy both? With the advent of the digital camera ideas about image quality changed radically. Photographers became obsessed with clarity, and the presence of image grain, known to photographers as noise, became a contentious issue. A wide … Continue reading Look at the Beautiful Noise: Noise Photography and Jeff Ascough