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“Like a bird on a wire . . .” – foto Smith

“Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It doesn’t pay to beat a dead hearse.” – Smith

“It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself,” – Socrates

“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

“When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.” – Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Lauren Bacall to Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep: “Why did you have to go on?” “Too many people told me to stop,” he replies.

“The doing is the essence, the done but distant dream.” – Smith

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” – Socrates

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
— Walt Whitman, verse 51 of Leaves of Grass

“Rain rots what is kept wrapped, but not what is uncovered.” – Buddha Tathagata

“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern.” – William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu (600-300 BC ?)

“The pursuit may well be the goal in disguise.” – Abdul ben Camel


detail of Corridor by Mother Dwarf – foto Smith

detail of Future Fact I by Lady K – foto Smith

Hope to see you at the show tonight.

4th Dimensional Smith Family Art Show
64 pieces from 1969-2012

Sacred Pulp
Two Dead Smiths, Two Live Smiths
featuring
Mother Dwarf Smith, 1926 – 2005
Cat Smith, 1957 – 1987
Lady K. Smith, 1972 – ?
Steven B. Smith, 1946 – ?

February 10 – March 10, 2012
Mastroianni Arts
2688 W 14th St, Cleveland, OH 44113
(in Tremont, 2 blocks south of Lincoln Park)

2 Responses

  1. “That bird photo is truly one of the *most* excellent of the (many) excellent photos you have posted, I love it.” — Jo Meincke

    Have a wonderful opening tonight!

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