Month: June 2019

Everywhere I go in the world, I see young and old,
rich and poor, reading books.
Whether readers are engaged in the sacred or the secular,
they are, for a time, transported to another world.

Ever since Gutenberg invented the printing press which enabled
everyone access to books, artists have tried to portray the
relationship of readers and books.

Garrett Stewart’s book, The Look of Reading:
Book, Painting, Text, explores the relationship of
reading and art.He points out that a wide array of artists from
Rembrandt to Picasso and Cassatt
and dozens more,over the past 500 years
have painted people reading and the “look of reading” on the subjects’ faces.

We are familiar with words describing images, but not so
familiar with images describing words and the
impact reading has on our lives.

Reading a good book is a universal activity,
and people read while they do just about everything else.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
– Jorge Luis Borges

We read to know we are not alone.
– C.S. Lewis

Reading is a means of thinking with another person’s mind;
it forces you to stretch your own.
– Charles Scribner

When I get a little money I buy books, 
and if any is left I buy food and clothes. 
 – Erasmus

There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!
– Emily Dickinson

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Essence of Life
Nantucket, Massachusetts
July 18 – 28, 2019

Le Monde de Steve McCurry
Lyon, France
Ends July 21, 2019

Visages de L’Innocence
Barbizon, France
Ends September 22, 2019

Steve McCurry: Animals
Aosta, Italy
Ends October 5, 2019

 

 

 

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken,
but your mind is a palace.
– Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
– Carl Jung

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began,
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
– J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings

Be sure you put your feet in the right place,
then stand firm.
– Abraham Lincoln

It doesn’t matter how great your shoes are if you
don’t accomplish anything in them.
– Martina Boone

 The man with the boots does not mind where he places his foot. 
– Irish Proverb

To the barefoot man, happiness is a pair of shoes.
To the man with old shoes, it’s a pair of new shoes.
To the man with new shoes, it’s stylish shoes.
And of course, the fellow with no feet would be happy to be barefoot.
Measure your life by what you have not by what you don’t.
– Michael Josephson

Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes,
old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity,
good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Steve McCurry: Leggere
Torino, Italy
Ends July 1, 2019

Essence of Life
Nantucket, Massachusetts
July 18 – 28, 2019

Le Monde de Steve McCurry
Lyon, France
Ends July 21, 2019

Visages de L’Innocence
Barbizon, France
Ends September 22, 2019

Steve McCurry: Animals
Aosta, Italy
Ends October 5, 2019

 

Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave
are the two most important things in life.
– Shel Silverstein

Dogs are our link to paradise.
They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent.
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be
back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring.
It was peace.
– Milan Kundera

Histories are more full of the examples
of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
– Alexander Pope

The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in
this selfish world, the one that never deserts him,
the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
– George Graham

If you think you’re a person of some influence,
try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
– Cowboy Wisdom

You think dogs will not be in heaven?
I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
– Robert Louis Stevenson

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers,
is contained in the dog.
– Franz Kafka, Investigations of the Dog

 

I think it is safe to say that Steve never
met an animal he didn’t like.
– Bonnie McCurry

 

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