Marty McCorkle🎨さんのイラストまとめ

“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
― Will Rogers

"We believe in Art
Tho' we’re poles apart
From the fools who are thrilled by Greuze.
We like Beardsley & Green Chartreuse.
...Faded boys, jaded boys, come what may,
Art is our inspiration
And as we are the reason for the Nineties being gay,
We all wear a green carnation."
-Coward

"And where is the German Reich? There also
Will be prodigious America and world-owning China. I say that all hopes and empires will die like yours;
Mankind will die, there will be no more fools; wisdom will die; the very stars will die;
One fierce life lasts.”
―Robinson Jeffers

“For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan

Cats in the Garden, acrylic painting on canvas, 36 x 45 inches

Cat and Young Man, oil paint on black paper, 8 x 10 inches

At bottom, we humans are not at all rational. We are Nature wearing a brain as a hat and despite this accessory, intelligence, we eat & multiply with a gusto that makes our bacterial forefathers look on in envy. We are biology in a wool blend.

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.”
―Dickens

With normal weather behind us, and the biosphere closing its shutters permanently, the heart breaks so much that many of us keep its dusty remains in a ziplock back.

heart, acrylic painting on canvas, 32 x 38 inches

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
― Charles Dickens