“The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion, easier to deal with and easier to live with” J.L. Rowling The Bird Flies Off to Where Down Grows on the Gold-Rimmed Hills, by Joan Miró #Art

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars. Ursula K Legun

“And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content” Ursula K. Le Guin,The Farther Shore

“In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation" Aldous Huxley Happy Summer Everyone! My picture.

"The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!" Sigmund Freud Ground Swell, by Edward Hopper #Art

"Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious" Sigmund Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening. 1944, by Salvador Dalí, MTB, Madrid #Art

"The art of living is based on rhythm - on give & take, ebb & flow, light & dark, life & death" Henry Miller "Gardenia", 2019, Artist Chen-Wen Cheng (Taiwanese , born 1964) #Art

"If a man is making a story up it will be true in proportion to the amount of knowledge of life that he has and how conscientious he is; so that when he makes something up it is as it would truly be" Ernest Hemingway, On Writing Hemingway fishing, Old Man and Sea, by Modeste von Unruh #Art

"La existencia no es más que el logro precario de relevancia en un flujo intensamente móvil de pasado, presente y fururo" Susan Sontag Taza de té y fruta, 1921 by Hayami Gyoshū The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo #Art

“We must learn how to handle words effectively; but at the same time we must preserve and, if necessary, intensify our ability to look at the world directly and not through that half opaque medium of concepts" Aldous Huxley Gloucester Beach, E.Hopper #Art

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression" Isaac Bashevis Singer "Summer Breeze", 2025, by David Lidbetter (Canadian , born 1962) #Art

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask" Jim Morrison By the Sea, Paul Gauguin #Art

“Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories” Yuval Noah Harari Neptune, by Salvador Dalí, Dalinian Horses 1970 #Art

"Extrañar es un poco como el hambre. Sólo se pasa cuando se come la presencia. Pero, a veces, extrañar es tan profundo que la presencia es poco: se quiere absorber a la otra persona entera" Clarice Lispector Madonna and Isabella Rossellini photographed by Steven Meisel, 1992. #Art

“The new hypocrite is one whose aims are really religious, while he pretends that they are worldly and practical” G.K. Chesterton, What’s wrong with the world Political Drama, by Robert Delaunay #Art

"The more equal conditions are, the less explanation there is for the differences that actually exist between people; and thus all the more unequal do individuals and groups become” Hannah Arendt The Conversation, by David Hockney #Art

“Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two” Octavio Paz The Jewish Museum, NY, by Kris Graves #Art

“Grande es la verdad, pero aún mayor, desde un punto de vista práctico, es el silencio sobre la verdad” Aldoux Huxley Plaza de la Libertad, en Ceret, por Chaim Soutine

“Every animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” George Orwell, Animal Farm This is one of my pictures …

“Extraordinary individuals are distinguished less by their impressive ‘raw powers’ than by their ability to identify their strengths and then to exploit them” Howard E. Gardner Head of a Man, by Miró #Art

“We form an opinion about someone based on what we see. But what they reveal of themselves is merely a fragment. The rest is out of view, below the surface…" Erica Campbell Boats in Marseille, by Raoul Dufy #Art

“The more frightening the world becomes, the more art becomes abstract” Wassily Kandinsky Painting by Miró #Art

“Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions"  André Breton Houses, by Chaim Soutine #Art

"The concept of luck is very straightforward. Some people notice opportunities and others don't" Richard Wiseman #Psicology "Summer Dappled Light on the Corner of Tite Street" by Daisy Sims Hilditch #Art

"If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for"  Thomas Merton "Flowers and Fruits", by Salvador Dalí #Art

“The essence of all art is having pleasure giving pleasure” Mikhail Baryshnikov The Dancer, by André Derain #Art

"Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real" Niels Bohr American Trottier Horses, by Salvador Dalí #Art

“With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.” Guy Debord Without words... Leonardo da Vinci #Art

“I’m keenly aware of multiple clocks" “They’re all ticking" Fei Fei Li t.co/5ck44tILuz #AIageMindset The Clock, by Remedios Varo #Art

"The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light" Stanley Kubrick One of his shots