“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
― The Essential Rumi
― The Essential Rumi
“When the work is done, and one's name is becoming distinguished, to withdraw into obscurity is the way of Heaven.”
― Tao Te Ching
― Tao Te Ching
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
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“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
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A Conversation With the Author: Andrea Dandolo
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