American Gothic by Grant Wood Poster | Zazzle #Sold!

American artist Grant Devolson Wood (1891-1942) painted American Gothic in 1930. It is held by the Art Institute of Chicago.

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LYONEL FEININGER | Beauty Bellezza Beauté

Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956).

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“Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.” | Art of Quotation

“Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.” — Marcel Duchamp, painter, sculptor, French-naturalized, American

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“I hate writing, I love having written.”

“I hate writing, I love having written.” ― Dorothy Parker, American, poet, short story writer, critic, satirist

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First Night Design | Self-Taught Artists: Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe [1887-1986] by Alfred Stieglitz

“I found that I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say in any other way — things that I had no words for.”

Blue and Green Music 1919-1920

“I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.”

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First Night Design | Penn Station by Berenice Abbott 1898-1991

Penn Station, Manhattan

With thanks to Art Lark

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The Ever-Wise Mark Twain: Age

Mark Twain, wrote “Is Shakespeare Dead?” shortly before his death in 1910. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”  Mark Twain

I don’t mind, and it doesn’t matter.  I would not be young again for all the tea in China.  Especially as I don’t drink tea.

Is this the time to admit that while I have seen countless adaptations, I have never read Twain’s books?  Don’t all cry out at once—I do have Tom Sawyer on my iPhone!  But I’ve recently gloried in the exquisite prose of Margaret Atwood with Alias Grace, and the rest of her oeuvre is beckoning.

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