“The duende....Where is the duende? Through the empty archway a wind of the spirit enters, blowing insistently over the heads of the dead, in search of new landscapes and unknown accents: a wind with the odour of a child's saliva, crushed grass, and medusa's veil, announcing the endless baptism of freshly created things.” ChildrenSpiritWindEmptyEndlessLandscapeGrassAccentsVeilsCrushedBaptismAnnouncingMedusaSalivaArchways Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“You will say that everyone has seen landscapes and figures from childhood on. The question is: Has everybody also been reflexive as a child? Has everybody who has seen them also loved heath, fields, meadows, woods, and the snow and the rain and the s.” ChildrenChildhoodFiguresFieldsRainWoodsSnowLandscapeMeadows Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good, eventually he will get back - like Cezanne - to the essential forms of what he sees.” IfsGivingChildrenFormNaturalFlowerEssentialsComplexesPaintVery GoodLandscapeGet BackBouquetsCezanne Book:Robert Motherwell Source: Robert Motherwell
“In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises.” PeopleTryingChildrenSoulMomentsWould BeGivenNatureClearDangerousFinePromiseMoodBackgroundsLandscapeOld PeopleDebtors Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918 Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
“How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." But what is that? The big boy says, "When I grow up." And then, grown up, he says, "When I get married." But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone.” LifeLooksChildrenLittlesBigsSeemsAbleGrowsBoysGoneGrowing UpStrangeWindColdMarriedLandscapeOver ItRetirementRetiringBeing MarriedProcessionCold Wind Book:Feast of Stephen Source: Feast of Stephen