The only beauty possible

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The most beautiful people we’ve known are those who have known defeat, suffering, effort, loss and found their way out of the dark. These people have an esteem, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, kindness and an interest of deep love. Beautiful people don’t just happen; they were formed.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

How I see green and red

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“Perhaps I continue because my obsession eludes me. Creation is an absolute necessity that makes you forget everything else. I didn’t think I was going to support myself by painting, I just wanted to clarify things with myself. Creation is like love, nothing can be done about it. It is a necessity.”
Francis Bacon, Conversation with Franck Maubert

Reflecting is listening stronger

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This is finally loneliness: wrapping yourself in the silk of your soul, getting chrysalis and waiting for metamorphosis, which you cannot miss. Meanwhile you live of your own experiences and telepathically you live other people’s life […].Finally you only own yourself. Other people’s thoughts don’t control mine anymore; opinions, other people’s tantrums don’t upset me anymore. Now the soul starts to mature in regained freedom and I feel an immense inner peace, a serene pleasure, a sense of certainty and responsibility. If I reflect on the social life that should be some kind of gym, I can’t now but judge it other than a school of vices. If you carry a sense of beauty, being forced to see ugliness is a real torture, which deceitfully drives you to consider yourself a martyr. Closing your eyes to injustice just because of it teaches you little by little to become a hypocrite. Getting used to constantly suppressing your opinions and always because of it, makes you vile. August Strindberg, ′′ Alone ′′