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"She had to fight against developing too combative a personality or becoming altogether a misanthrope. She suddenly caught herself. "Misanthrope" is someone who dislikes everybody, not just men. And they certainly had a word for someone who hates women: "misogynist." But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves, she thought, and had been unable to imagine a market for such a word." - Carl Sagan (Contact)

"We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are." - Carl Sagan (Contact)

"You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other." - Carl Sagan (Contact)

"Do you know what your kindness does?" "No, what?" "It teaches people who thought love was a lie that maybe it isn't. It shows broken souls that there's still someone who cares without asking for anything back. You think you're just being nice, but you're actually re-introducing love to people who had forgotten it exists."

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20-20- “The Mirror Crack’d From Side To Side” - Tom Adams

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19/20-“The Shadow”-Edmund Blair Leighton

Lynda and Anita Gunn modeled for the painting, but it does depict the 6 year old Ruby Bridges, who was around 10 years old when Rockwell painted the portrait.

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18/20- “The Problem We All Live With”, Norman Rockwell, 1964

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17/20- “The Runaway”, Norman Rockwell-1958

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16/20- “Tango” by Fabian Perez

I know! Cracks me up! lol!

🤷🏼‍♀️

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15/20- “The Garden of Earthly Delights”- Triptych- Hieronymus Bosch -1490-1510

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14/20- “Lilith “-John Collier - 1892

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13/20 -"House by the Railroad" - Edward Hopper
1925

I did not know about the life mask, had to look it up. While I see what you’re talking about I still think Alleaume’s drawing has more expression, as if lost in deep thought, where the mask looks like sleeping.
Just the thought of having plaster on my face gives me anxiety. 😫

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12/20 -“Tristram and Isolde”-1916 - John William Waterhouse

I know the challenge was to share paintings, but I love this drawing so much that I had to share it. The look on his face, you can see he’s concentrating on listening to his muse. ❤️❤️

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11/20 -"Beethoven Listening to a Muse" 1928 -Ludovic Alleaume

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10/20-"Napoleon I at Fontainebleau on March 31, 1814"
- Paul Delaroche

One ghost pushing another ghost on a swing hung from a tree over graveyard headstones, a full moon shines overhead. Illustration.

Goodnight.
🖼️ Laurie A Conley #31DaysofHalloween #Gothtober

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09/20- “Las Meninas”- Diego Velázquez - 1656

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08/20- "Les Saltimbanques" - Gustave Doré -1874

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07/20- "Picture of Dorian Gray"- Ivan Albright
www.artic.edu/artworks/937...

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06/20- “Miranda - The Tempest”-1916, by John William Waterhouse

I love this!

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5/20-"Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs" by Frederick William Burton

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04/20- “More Than Words”, by Isabel Samaras
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03/20

"Papilla estelar" ( "Stellar puree", aka "Celestial pabulum") by Remedios Varo