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Henri Matisse, Sirènes, 1968 “There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem...

Mark Twain playing billiard, 1908 "The billiard table is better than the doctor." "This is a most amusing game. When...

Claude Monet, Woman with an Umbrella - Madame Monet and her Son, 1875 "Greed puts out the sun." Ursula K....

Buster Keaton and Dorothy Sebastian, Spite Marriage, 1929 "Eat, drink and remarry is my motto." "It's the cynics who never...

Fred Blunt "The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...

Alfred Stevens, The Bath, 1867 “Poetry is not the most important thing in life… I’d much rather lie in a...

Maud Lewis, Lighthouse, 1960 "She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!" Henry James, Washington...

Gaston Maréchaux, Y is for you you, A B C 1935-36 “We take simple preferences and turn theminto conditions for...

Ryo Takemasa, Taxi, New York, 2011 "If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a...

Peanuts "Where shame is, there is also fear." John Milton "Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit." Seneca the...