March 2023 – The Thinkerer

Sometimes

The Desperate Man – Gustave Courbet (Painted between 1843 & 45)

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
Steve Jobs, Co-Founder of Apple Computers Inc.

Obscure Observations

Composition 8 – Vasily Kandinsky (Painted in 1923)

Seeing is the consequence of optics; observing is the consequence of imaginative contemplation.
Ian Semple, Member of the Universal House of Justice of the Bahá’í faith

I Stood

Woman in the Garden – Claude Monet (Painted in 1866)

Gardens are not made by singing “Oh, how beautiful,” and sitting in the shade.
Rudyard Kipling, English Novelist

The Eventual Gaffe

The Persistence of Memory – Salvador Dalí (Painted in 1931)

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce, Irish Novelist

A Sonnet on Cliffs

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford, American Industrialist

A Sonnet on Mornings

Le Sommeil (Sleep) – Salvador Dali (Painted in 1937)

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist