Category: STYLE MOMENTS
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Style Moment | Peace, Iceland
“Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe.” Satish Kumar (born 1936) Indian peace activist, Jain monk [Photo taken on Langjökull glacier, Iceland]
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Style Moment | Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay
“All objects are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!” Camille Paglia (born 1947) American author, teacher, and social critic
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Style Moment | MALBA Museum, Buenos Aires
“If one says ‘red’ and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.” Josef Albers (1888-1976) German-born American artist and educator
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Style Moment | Caminito, Buenos Aires
“Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.” Jun’ichirō Tanizaki (1886-1965) Japanese author
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Style Moment | Green shutter, Chiavari
“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.” Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) French impressionist painter
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Style Moment | Clifden, County Galway, Ireland
“All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.” Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Russian/French artist
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Style Moment | Ballinderry Park, County Galway
“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements of human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.” John Lubbock (1834-1913) English biologist
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Style Moment | Mantle in a Georgian house, Ireland
“History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.” William Morris (1834-1896) English textile designer, artist, and writer
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Style Moment | Ballinderry Park, Ireland
“Beauty is a form of genius — is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.” Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist
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Style Moment | Irish pottery
“Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has ever known.” Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish writer and poet
