Inspiration

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working... - Pablo Picasso

Enter Ophelia, fantastically dressed with straws and flowers

„LAERTES

How now! what noise is that?

Re-enter OPHELIA

O heat, dry up my brains! tears, seven times salt, burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!– By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight, Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May! Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia!…”  William Shakespeare: Hamlet

Enter Ophelia, fantastically dressed with straws and flowers. Illustration by Walter Crane. From Flowers from Shakespeare’s Garden, 1906

In our life there is a single color

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love...

Marc Chagall (1887-1985): Paradise (1960)