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“Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.”

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Hetti Perkins, born in 1962, is an accomplished writer known for her profound insights and unique narrative style. Her works span various genres, earning her recognition and awards in the literary world. more

“This is another world to the ones most Australians know. It was explained by my father once that it's like a blanket on the ground. We, the uninitiated, only see the blanket. Lift it up and that's what our elders... see - the real thing - a world most of us will never know or understand. Through their paintings, artists... offer us a glimpse of the world of dreams where the past, present and the future link.”

Knows World Art Real Dream Past Artist Father Painting Offers Lifts Links Glimpse Elders Blanket Real Things Another World Past Present

Author:Hetti Perkins

“I feel it's just some sort of game if it's just abstract.”

Ifs Feels Art Games Abstract

Author:Jeffrey Smart

“Sometimes I'll drive around for months despair, nothing, nothing, then suddenly I will see something that seizes me... a shape, a combination of shapes, a play of light or shadows and I send up a prayer because I know I have the germ of a picture.”

Knows Art Sometimes Play Light Prayer Months Shapes Despair Shadow Combination Germs

Author:Jeffrey Smart

“Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.”

World Art Made Form Spirit Painting Manifest Incarnation

Author:Jeffrey Smart

“Everybody gets inspired. We all have these moments. It just depends on whether you've got the ability to seize it.”

Art Moments Ability Depends Inspired

Author:Jeffrey Smart

“Time - whether you are burning it up or falling in love or spreading it out thin in a dentist's waiting room - is a commodity that cannot be weighed out and measured by clocks.”

Art Fall Waiting Rooms Falling In Love Burning Clock Commodity Dentist Waiting Rooms

Author:Joan Lindsay

“But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.”

Country Facts Intellectual Evaluate Subway Tokyo Raphael

Author:Umberto Eco

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