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Mark Twain says: | The Müscleheaded Blog

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in…

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FROM THE ARCHIVE 8th August 2014

Postcard Lemons Post Card

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“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.” Robert Henri

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“It is go…

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Dorothy Parker says: | The Muscleheaded Blog

“There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”

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Marguerite Duras says:

“I’ve forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I’ve forgotten them, and now I’m talking to you without them.”

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First Night Design | ‘She is too fond of books…’

Re-jigged post from 2013.

Louisa May Alcott, from a photo taken just previous to her going to Washington in 1862 as a hospital nurse. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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“She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain.”

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What? Louisa May Alcott said that!  Surely not.  In case you’re thinking that the author of Little Women was not the woman you had always thought, fear not.  She put this absurd thought into the mouths of one of her characters in Work: A Story of Experience, a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1873 about a determined young lady intent on finding satisfying and worthwhile work.

As if one could ever read too many books; as if a fondness for the written word could ever addle the brain.

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Padgett Powell says:

A quote by Padgett Powell (I’ve now got to look up who he is from Adam!) from The Muscleheaded Blog that made me hoot with laughter and recognition.

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Sarah

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“Try to recall the person you thought you were,
and the moment you began to realize you are not that person, and then try to grasp and appreciate the high quality of lunacy required for you to have ever thought you were that person.”

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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 | Child in White by Pierre Auguste Renoir

Child in White by Pierre Auguste Renoir Postcards

The French impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), painted Child in White in 1883. His sitter, Lucie Bérard (1880-1977), was about three years old at the time and was the daughter of his friend, the banker, diplomat and businessman Paul Bérard.

Child in White by Pierre Auguste Renoir Greeting Card

Child in White by Pierre Auguste Renoir Stretched Canvas Print

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“Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.”

“Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.”

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First Night Design | “I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means…”

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Postcard Lemons Post Card

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“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.”
Robert Henri

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Alice in Wonderland Postcard

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“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
Vincent van Gogh

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Cubist Shutters, Doors & Windows Post Cards

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“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”
Kurt Vonnegut

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American Gothic by Grant Wood Print

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“Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh… now you tell me what you know.”
Groucho Marx

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Emmeline Pankhurst Greeting Card

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“Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?”
Tom Hodgkinson

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Vintage Clock Turns Midnight Stickers

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