Month: September 2023

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime.
Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or
beauty, are all sublime.

– John Ruskin

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

– Eleanor Catton

Friendship is a serious affection;
the most sublime of all affections,
because it is founded on principle,
and cemented by time.

– Mary Wollstonecraft

For most of us, there is only the unattended moment, the moment in and out of time, the distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, the wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning, or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music, while the music lasts.

– T.S. Eliot

What are the scenes of nature that elevate the mind
and produce the sublime sensation?
…the hoary mountain, the solitary lake,
the aged forest and torrent falling over rocks.

– Hugh Blair, lecture notes from 1783

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.

– Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

QUESTION:
What sublime places have you visited?
Please let us know in the comments.

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EXHIBITIONS

CHILDREN

Museo degli Innocenti
Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, 13
Florence, Italy

Fri, May 19, 2023 – Sun, Oct 8, 2023

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ICONS

Museo Franz Mayer
Av. Hidalgo 45, Centro Histórico
Mexico City, Mexico

Wed, Jun 7, 2023  Wed, Sep 20, 2023
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STEVE McCURRY

Semper Depot
Lehárgasse 6-8
Vienna, Austria

Fri, Jul 7, 2023 – Sun, Sep 24, 2023

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THE EYES OF HUMANITY

Leica Galerie Stuttgart
Calwer Straße 41
Stuttgart, Germany

Fri, Jul 14, 2023 – Sat, Sep 30, 2023

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LUZ Y SOMBRAS

Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Español
La Antigua, Guatemala

Sun, Aug 13, 2023 – Mon, Nov 13, 2023

The gifts of earth, in autumn,
Are fruits of labor bold;
The faithful sower reaps
In harvest time his gold.
It twines the wreath of gladness
Around that son of earth.
As he turns from care and sadness,
To his joyous household hearth!

– Charles William Butler

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants
seeds in the Spring, who reaps a
harvest in the Autumn.

– B. C. Forbes

We reap and we sow,
an emergence of pleasure.
The harvest begins.

– Upon Learning, by Melissa Schwartz

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

– William Blake

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow.
Sow an act, and you reap a habit.
Sow a habit and you reap a character.
Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

– James Allen

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

– William Blake

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An Important Message from Steve McCurry

“I can think of few more extraordinary humanitarian
organizations than the EMERGENCY
hospitals in Afghanistan which have
operated continuously throughout the
turbulence of the past few years.
When many fled the country, Emergency
doubled down on their commitment to care
for Afghans as they have since 1999.”
– Steve McCurry

We have teamed up with Ishkar to raise
funds by selling the print below at a special,
one-time price to show
Afghanistan we have not forgotten.
More information: at http://www.ishkar.com

All profits from the print sale will go to EMERGENCY’S
work in Afghanistan.
https://en.emergency.it/

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EXHIBITIONS

CHILDREN

Museo degli Innocenti
Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, 13
Florence, Italy

Fri, May 19, 2023 – Sun, Oct 8, 2023

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ICONS

Museo Franz Mayer
Av. Hidalgo 45, Centro Histórico
Mexico City, Mexico

Wed, Jun 7, 2023  Wed, Sep 20, 2023
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STEVE McCURRY

Semper Depot
Lehárgasse 6-8
Vienna, Austria

Fri, Jul 7, 2023 – Sun, Sep 24, 2023

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THE EYES OF HUMANITY

Leica Galerie Stuttgart
Calwer Straße 41
Stuttgart, Germany

Fri, Jul 14, 2023 – Sat, Sep 30, 2023

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LUZ Y SOMBRAS

Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Español
La Antigua, Guatemala

Sun, Aug 13, 2023 – Mon, Nov 13, 2023

After nourishment, shelter, and companionship,
stories are the thing we need most in the world.

– Philip Pullman

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

– Ira Glas

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think,
but to give you questions to think upon.

– Brandon Sanderson

Storytelling is among the oldest forms of communication. Storytelling is the commonality of all human beings,
in all places in all times.

– Rives Collins

We are all storytellers.
We all live in a network of stories.
There isn’t a stronger connection between people
than storytelling.

– Jimmy Neil Smith

There’s always room for a story that can transport
people to another place.

– J.K. Rowling

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put
ideas into the world today.

– Robert McKee

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A STATEMENT BY STEVE McCURRY

“I can think of few more extraordinary humanitarian
organizations than the EMERGENCY
hospitals in Afghanistan which have
operated continuously throughout the
turbulence of the past few years.
When many fled the country, Emergency
doubled down on their commitment to care
for Afghans as they have since 1999.”
– Steve McCurry

Starting on August 15, we are teaming up with Ishkar to raise funds by selling the print below at a special, one-time price to show Afghanistan we have not forgotten.
More information coming soon at http://www.ishkar.com

All profits from the print sale will go to EMERGENCY’S
work in Afghanistan.
https://en.emergency.it/

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EXHIBITIONS

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CHILDREN

Museo degli Innocenti
Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, 13
Florence, Italy

Fri, May 19, 2023 – Sun, Oct 8, 2023

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ICONS

Museo Franz Mayer
Av. Hidalgo 45, Centro Histórico
Mexico City, Mexico

Wed, Jun 7, 2023  Wed, Sep 20, 2023
___

STEVE McCURRY

Semper Depot
Lehárgasse 6-8
Vienna, Austria

Fri, Jul 7, 2023 – Sun, Sep 24, 2023

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THE EYES OF HUMANITY

Leica Galerie Stuttgart
Calwer Straße 41
Stuttgart, Germany

Fri, Jul 14, 2023 – Sat, Sep 30, 2023

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LUZ Y SOMBRAS

Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Español
La Antigua, Guatemala

Sun, Aug 13, 2023 – Mon, Nov 13, 2023