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31. kimo (2005)
watercolor, gouache and ink on Arches, France watercolor paper
12 x 8 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
Q: What do you think about before you fall asleep at night?
A: I don't think about the past much. And I never think about whether I am going to wake up or not the next morning. I'm too busy trying to read the last pages of the newspaper before it falls on my face.
- from an interview with John Hope Franklin
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32. ka'iulani (2005)
watercolor, gouache and ink on Arches, France watercolor paper
9 x 13 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
It seems we are striving, at tremendous cost, to be safe and secure these days. The power-hungry who seek control over our lives capitalize on the fear of not being "secure". The following is a quote from Helen Keller in 1940 that helps shed light on this concept:
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in Nature, nor do the children of men, as a whole, experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."
Do not live in fear and let us move on with life's adventure.
- Gordon Czernick, Ha'iku, Maui
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33. lisa (2006)
watercolor, gouache and ink on Arches, France watercolor paper
8 x 12 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
Playing a slot machine at the Tropicana, Alexander Ott, 73 of Smithtown, N.Y., said Atlantic City is still "the AARP's playground."
"We've got the time. We're retired," he said. "These other people, they're only the Friday and Saturday night crowd. They're living paycheck to paycheck. We're living Social Security check to Social Security check."
- from an A.P. article titled "Atlantic City Tries to Woo Younger Crowds"
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34. julie (2006)
watercolor, gouache and ink on Arches, France watercolor paper
13 x 21 1/2 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
"I was never horribly self-obsessed or wrapped up in my own weirdness, but when my daughter was born, suddenly there was clarity," he said. "I wasn't angry anymore. It was the first purely selfless moment that I had ever experienced. And it was liberating. In that moment, it's like you become something else. The real you is revealed."
- Johnny Depp
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35. blair (2006)
watercolor, gouache and ink on Arches, France watercolor paper
12 x 8 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
Saddest of all even being a "good" person does not make you happy. One of the most baffling enigmas is knowing men who have the serenity and happiness supposedly attainable only by Indian gurus and Tibetan monks and to find that, in these men at least, their celestial serenity springs from an unquenchable and unquestioning personal selfishness.
- Mario Puzo
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36. alexis (2006)
watercolor, gouache and ink on Arches, France watercolor paper
12 x 8 inches
Signed, titled, dated, and artist's copyright in ink on verso of painting.
I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there. I originally wrote the bullshit essay at Yale, and a physics professor told me that it was appropriate that this essay should have been written at Yale, because, after all, he said, Yale is the bullshit capital of the world.
- from an interview with Harry G. Frankfurt
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