"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."
Georgia O'Keeffe
From the Plains, Georgia O'Keeffe.
"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else".
Georgia O'Keeffe
Las flores de Georgia O'Keeffe.
Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz.
Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe.
Georgia O'Keeffe by John Loengard.
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"What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today."
Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Lindgren and Inger Nilsson. ♥️
"I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read."
Astrid Lindgren
"I would like to paint the way a bird sings."
Claude Monet
Claude Monet.
"Every day I discover
more and more beautiful things.
It’s enough to drive one mad.
I have such a desire
to do everything,
my head is bursting with it."
Claude Monet
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, by John Singer Sargent.
"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood."
Jim Henson
Jim Henson. ♥️
"I suppose that he's an alter ego. But he's a little snarkier than I am - slightly wise. Kermit says things I hold myself back from saying."
Jim Henson