Ego is a rat on the sinking ship of being.

Youcef Korichi: Painting

Youcef Korichi: Painting

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Painting by Kenton Nelson

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. — Elizabeth Hardwick

Painting by Kenton Nelson

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. — Elizabeth Hardwick

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“You think my paintings are calm, like windows in some cathedral? You should look again. I’m the most violent of all the American painters. Behind those colours there hides the final cataclysm.” 

-Rothko

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Mark Ryden

“The Angel of Meat”
38” x 33”, oil on panel, 1998

Mark Ryden

“The Angel of Meat”

38” x 33”, oil on panel, 1998

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