Month: February 2019

 

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion.
The great task in life is to find reality.
– Iris Murdoch

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’m obsessed with trompe l’oeil –
the idea of something that is existing and
is not existing.
– Alessandro Michele

 

 

 

Is not this whole world an illusion?
– Angela Carter

 

 

 

What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story.
And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream,
and dreams themselves are only dreams.
– Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Love is our true destiny.
We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone –
we find it with another.
– Thomas Merton

Until one has loved an animal,
a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
– Anatole France

A horse is worth more than riches.
– Spanish Proverb

Without a shepherd, sheep are not a flock.
– Russian Proverb

As an inspiration to the author,
I do not think the cat can be overestimated.
He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism.
I do not wonder that many writers love cats;
I am only surprised that all do not.
– Carl Van Vechten

All goats are mischievous thieves, gate-crashers,
and trespassers. Also, they possess individual
character, intelligence, and capacity for affection
which can only be matched by the dog.
– David Mackenzie, Farmer in the Western Isles

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
– Alice Walker

The beast which passeth all others in wit and mind.
– Aristotle on the elephant

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump;
you may be freeing him from being a camel.
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.
– James Herriot

All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful:
The Lord God made them all.
-Cecil Frances, 1848

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New Book

Steve McCurry:  A Life in Pictures by
Bonnie McCurry

Available in Italian – Mondadori/Electa

Available in German – Knesebeck publishers

Available in English – Laurence King Publishers

Available in French- La Martiniere

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ANIMALS EXHIBITION
Milan, Italy

STEVE McCURRY ANIMALS