A Dwelling by The Sea: Beauty

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Beauty

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty."                                                Keats

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."                 Confucius

"People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed if there is a light from within."   Elizabeth Kubler Ross


"Beauty is the shadow of God on the universe"                      Gabriela Mistral

"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, she is beautiful because you love her."
                                                                            Rogers & Hammerstein

"To me, fair friend you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still."                                                                              Shakespeare

At first I tried to draw or sketch a baby for this exercise to be truly creative.  The result did not please me as much as I would have liked. So I am posting one of my favorite vintage watercolor paintings by Philadelphian Bessie Gutmann in (1876-1960) Certainly there is no shortage of baby photos and art of children to choose from. It seems to me there is nothing more beautiful than an innocent newborn baby.

3 comments:

AnonymousJuly 21, 2011 at 12:38 PM
Great selections of beauty quotes and Gutmann does the best babies!! Nanc
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AnonymousJuly 21, 2011 at 2:01 PM
I would love to see your drawing :) the quotes are very inspiring. wise choice :)
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AnonymousJuly 21, 2011 at 10:33 PM
I adore this watercolor, Kathy, and you write soooo beautifully!
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Originally, when I began this blog, I was 64 and opened

with the following lyrics from the Beatles' song:

When I get older losing my hair,

Many years from now,

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Birthday greetings bottle of wine?

If I'd been out till quarter to three,

would you lock the door,

Will you still need me, will you still feed me,

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Here it is 2018. This March I turn 71. It's time to revamp, weed out the worst and make a book of sorts containing the best of the blog. It consists of prose poetry and short stories; they are pieces of me that I have been able to share, with pleasure, with you...considering how energy often was channeled elsewhere, the blog has an average of 300 visitors monthly from around the world. Thank you for stopping by.

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