Granville Austin – Page 3

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

A Sonnet on Money

Money often costs too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Essayist

Re-motivation

Napoleon Crossing the Alps – Jacques-Louis David (Painted in 1801)

Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.
Napoleon Bonaparte, French Military Commander and Leader

The Sleepy Poet

The Poor Poet – Carl Spitzweg (Painted in 1839)

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer, Greek Poet

A Sonnet on Walkers

A Line Made by Walking – Richard Long (Photographed in 1967)

If you’re going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can’t be erased.
Maya Angelou, American Memoirist and Poet Extraordinaire

A Sonnet on Worry

Arlésiennes (Mistral) – Paul Gauguin (Painted in 1888)

That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
Chinese Proverb