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Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
youtube.com/watch [youtube.com/watch]

Bambi, Thumper, and a Butterfly, Disney Studios c. 1942
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambi [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambi]
`Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts, the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others, but of the three the only trustworthy one is the last.' Ruskin
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Rosetta_Tharpe [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Rosetta_Tharpe]
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"It begins with delight to end in wisdom."
Robert Frost
"It should be the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can."
Robert Frost

Woman in White, Picasso c.1923
metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pica/ho_53.140.4.htm [metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pica/ho_53.140.4.htm]
`Art is not an aesthetic operation. It is a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange hostile world and us, a way of seizing power by giving form to our fears as well as our desires,'
Pablo Picasso 1950
`The point does not lie in these small, realistic, actions but in the whole creative sequence which is put into effect, thanks to the impulse given by these physical actions.'
Constatin Stanislavski 1920
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte
edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi [edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi]

The Camel's Hump, Edward Hopper
`I find, in working, always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds. The struggle to prevent this decay is, I think, the common lot of all painters to whom the invention of arbitrary forms has lesser interest.'
Edward Hopper 1940

Maga's Daughter, Andrew Wyeth c. 1966
"...one's art goes only as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason ...but that. If I have anything to offer, it is my emotional contact with the place where I live and the people...."
Andrew Wyeth 1960