Cover Art from Bob Orsillo’s art book “The Sequence”
Cover art from Bob Orsillo's latest book. The Sequence will be available at Barnes and Nobel and other fine book stores and libraries late 2007 and online at Amazon.com. Other places will be announced soon. The Sequence by Bob Orsillo Now Available at Amazon.com
The Sequence
New book by Bob Orsillo - Available Nov. 2007 The Sequence: copyright © 2007 Bob Orsillo Art is visual language. A form of communication between people who may never meet, and sometimes are hundreds if not thousands of miles or years apart. Art transcends time, brings ideas and passions from the past to the future. A single piece of art is a window to →
An art
Art Is there not An art, a music, and a stream of words That shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life? William Wordsworth (1770–1850), English poet. Home at Grasmere (written 1800; published as The Recluse, 1888).
Old Man In The Mountain
When the Old Man in Mountain left NH - I knew something was not up and should have paid closer attention. Bob Orsillo from the book "His Last Winter"
A. A. Milne (1882 – 1956)
Pooh began to feel a little more comfortable, because when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it. A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956) British writer. The →
Joseph Addison (1672 – 1719)
I have but ninepence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds. Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) English essayist, poet, and statesman.Comparing his ability to make conversation with his ability to write. Reply to a lady who complained "of his having talked little in company."
Sextus Propertius (50? BC – 15? BC)
Even if strength fail, boldness at least will deserve praise: in great endeavors even to have had the will is enough. Sextus Propertius (50? BC - 15? BC) Roman poet. Elegies
Popism
If Dylan had just been a poet with no guitar saying those same things, it wouldn't have worked; but you can't ignore poetry when it shoots into the Top Ten. Andy Warhol (1928? - 1987) U.S. artist and filmmaker.Referring to Bob Dylan. Popism
John Dewey
The various fine arts, architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, are the successive attempts of the mind adequately to express its own ideal nature. John Dewey (1859 - 1952) U.S. philosopher and educator. Psychology
Nicholas Negroponte
Like a force of nature, the digital age cannot be denied or stopped. It has four very powerful qualities that will result in its ultimate triumph: decentralizing, globalizing, harmonizing, and empowering. Nicholas Negroponte U.S. business executive and writer. Being Digital
John Ruskin
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) British art critic, writer, and reformer. The Two Paths
Rafael Alberti
A graveyard for pleasure, good taste, the urge to fornicate with what's painted. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Rafael Alberti (1902 - 1999) Spanish poet.Referring to Pablo Picasso's painting, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907). The Eight Names of Picasso, "Ballad of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"
Richard Wilbur
Edgar Degas purchased once A fine El Greco, which he kept Against the wall beside his bed To hang his pants on while he slept. Richard Wilbur (1921 - ) U.S. poet. Ceremony and Other Poems, "Museum Piece"
Bill Gates
Digital tools magnify the abilities that make us unique in the world: the ability to think, the ability to articulate our thoughts, the ability to work together to act on those thoughts. Bill Gates (1955 - ) U.S. business executive. Business @ the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System (co-written with Collins Hemingway)
C.P. Snow
Snow, C.P. born Oct. 15, 1905, Leicester, Leicestershire, Eng. died July 1, 1980, London in full Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow OfThe City Of Leicester British novelist,scientist, and government administrator. Snow was graduated from Leicester University and earned a doctorate in physics at the University of Cambridge, where, at the age of 25, he became a fellow of Christ's College. After working at Cambridge →
Gore Vidal – Two Sisters
American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither. Gore Vidal (1925 - ) U.S. novelist and essayist. Two Sisters
Robert Louis Stevenson – Underwoods, “Foreword”
Of all my verse, like not a single line; But like my title, for it is not mine. That title from a better man I stole; Ah, how much better, had I stol'n the whole! Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet. Underwoods, "Foreword"
Jonathan Swift – Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift”
In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine; When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six: It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, "Pox take him and his wit!" Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman. "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift"
James Joyce – Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the secret cause. James Joyce (1882 - 1941) Irish →
James Joyce – April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.
April 27. Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead. James Joyce (1882 - 1941) Irish writer.Closing words of novel. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce – Poor Parnell! he cried loudly. My dead King!
Poor Parnell! he cried loudly. My dead King! James Joyce (1882 - 1941) Irish writer.Referring to Charles Parnell. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce – The language in which we are speaking
The language in which we are speaking is his before it is mine. How different are the words home, Christ, ale, master, on his lips and on mine. James Joyce (1882 - 1941) Irish writer.Referring to the English language. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce – Ireland is the old sow
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. James Joyce (1882 - 1941) Irish writer. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce – April 26 Welcome, O life!
April 26 Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. James Joyce (1882 - 1941) Irish writer. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
