162

Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me. -William R. Benet

161: Movie Poster Monday

Lady Vengeance (2005)

160

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. -Walt Whitman

159

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.  -Henry David Thoreau

 

158: Fine Art Friday

Inspired by one of Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" Photographs

157

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
-Anne Bronte

156

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. -Maya Angelou

155

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art. -Konstantin Stanislavisky

154: movie Poster Monday

Belle de Jour (1967)

153

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.  -Louisa May Alcott

152

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. -William Shakespeare

151

 

Fine Art Friday: inspired by A flowered Gown by Thomas Pollock Anschutz (1906)

150

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. -Robert Bulwer-Lytton

149

 

Look back, and smile on perils past. -Walter Scott

148

My finished skull for Skull Appreciation Day!

From other angles:

 

 

 

 

147: Movie Poster Monday

Rosemary's Baby (1968)

146

Goat eye.

145

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see. -Paul Klee