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“Painters have a knowledge which goes beyond words. They are where musicians are. When someone blows the saxophone the sky is made of copper. When you make a watercolor you know how it feels to be the sea lying early in the day in the proximity of light.”

— Etel Adnan, from Journey to Mount Tamalpais (Post Apollo Press, 1986)

“What are you doing here between the promised and the forgotten, Between the hoped for and the imagined?”

— Yehuda Amichai, from “Lying in Wait for Happiness,“ Poems of Jerusalem & Love Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 1992)

Fez, 1994.

Photographs by Bruno Barbey

catch inspiration before it becomes jealousy

“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar,” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. “My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.”

— Sandi Toksvig, ‘Top 10 unsung heroines’ (via theknopeway)