Xie Zhiliu, Red Lotus, Hanging scroll, Ink and colour on paper, 20th c.
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“I have dreamed of you so much that surely there is no more time for me to wake up.”
—Robert Desnos
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🖌 Edward Burne-Jones
Franz von Bayros, St. George Rescuing a Maiden from a Dragon, Late 19th-early 20th c., Pen and black ink, Brush and grey and black wash, Over black chalk
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“Flowers alone give me pause. Sometimes I see in the flower’s beauty an effort on the plant’s part towards a comprehensible face, a hand held out to man”
—Raymond Queneau, Saint Glinglin
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🖌 Natee Utarit
Gustave Doré, Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, “A world of disorderly notions, picked out of his books, crowded into his imagination”
Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Cannabis sativa, Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, 1885
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Imagination and reason are biological twins. They must grow up together. What affects the one will affect the other. If their development is such that one grows apace and the other remains stunted, the results are disastrous.
🖋🖌 Grace W. Pailthorpe