Concarneau, Paul Signac, 1891

Maybe something about this kind of rough application of paint that allows for some experience that wouldn't be there with a more realistic painting. This is like the idea of the thing, like the magic of the scene was separated from its reality and emphasized. All the texture and physical sense of the paint gives it a feel, also. I don't even care what the real place looks like, I like this version of it. Great colors.

Anyway I'm sure there are writers who have expressed what's going on in these types of paintings very well already. I really like this one a lot.

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A quotation from Brennan Manning

Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 7 “Paste Jewelry and Sawdust Hot Dogs” (1990)

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A quotation from Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essay (1587), “Of Experience [De l’Experience], Essays, Book 3, ch. 13 (3.13) (1595) [tr. Cohen (1958)]

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A quotation from #Gaiman, Neil:

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Some years ago, I was lucky enough invited to a gathering of great and good people: artists and scientists, writers and discoverers of things. And I felt that at any moment they would realise that I didn’t qualify to be there, among these people who had really done things. On my second or…
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https://wist.info/gaiman-neil/38934/

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Things to do #InsteadOfWorldCup, 14/29:

Listen to an #AI simulate a conversation between #German #filmmaker #Werner #Herzog and #philosophe #slovène #Slavoj “Who?” #Žižek.

You can listen to it until this abomination of a football tournament has ended.

Indeed, you can listen to it until the universe achieves heat death.

Boost and add your own!

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