Frases e pensamentos

"Os pensamentos são como as flores, aquelas que apanhamos de manhã mantêm-se muito mais tempo viçosas".

André Gide

Mercie Cutting Flowers" (1912)

oil on canvas

By Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862 – 1938)

Tarbell was renowned for his elegant interiors and vivacious outdoor paintings of his family. He experimented with a range of forms through en plein air painting. He specialized in delicately finished, pearly interior

PARADISE lost

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of JUNK. 
==== Thomas A. Edison


The only PARADISE is PARADISE lost.
====Marcel Proust


Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought. 
==== Eugenio Montale


I lack the magnificent richness of COLOR that animates nature. 
==== Paul Cezanne


With COLOR one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft. 
==== Henri Matisse


The COLOR of truth is gray. 
==== Andre Gide

Andre Gide

The COLOR of truth is gray. 

==== Andre Gide

Resistence - Resistência

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. 
====Sun Tzu


Today the majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization
==== Nelson Mandela


Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
====Andre Gide


No man should ever display his bravery unless he is prepared for battle, nor bear the marks of defiance, until he has experienced the abilities of his enemy.
==== Hitopadesa


I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
====Friedrich Nietzsche


Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
====Mark Twain


Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
====Mohandas Gandhi


Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again.
====Ulrike Meinhof


The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
====Ninon de L'Enclos


The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
====Honore de Balzac

Barra do Una - Fotografia Leonora Fink