To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice.
~ Andre Malraux ~
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The Races at Longchamp, 1866
by
Edouard Manet
In honor of the Kentucky Derby, this month, I offer you a look at racing in Paris; and wish you a patch of blue sky and a day of swooshing skirts and white parasols!
Art can never exist without naked beauty displaced.
~ William Blake ~