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Sam Baker
Jul 13, 20190 min read
Sam Baker
Jul 13, 20190 min read
Sam Baker
Jul 13, 20190 min read
Sam Baker
Jul 13, 20190 min read
Sam Baker
Jul 13, 20190 min read
Abstract
Oil on canvas
Sam Baker
Jun 30, 20191 min read
Nonsense
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. -Theodore Geisel
Sam Baker
Jun 30, 20191 min read
Ajar
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. -Emily Dickinson
Sam Baker
Jun 30, 20191 min read
Slant
Tell the truth, but tell it slant. -Emily Dickinson
Sam Baker
Jun 30, 20191 min read
Angel in the marble
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. -Michelangelo
Sam Baker
Jun 30, 20191 min read
Cathedral
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. -Antoine de...
Sam Baker
Jun 30, 20191 min read
Lit
The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination. -Emily Dickinson
Sam Baker
Jun 30, 20191 min read
Dazzle
The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three...
Sam Baker
Jun 30, 20191 min read
Seeing
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. -Henry David Thoreau
Sam Baker
Jun 30, 20191 min read
Revery
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. -Emily...
Sam Baker
Jun 30, 20191 min read
Color
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. -Paul Gauguin
Sam Baker
Jun 30, 20191 min read
Squint
When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all...
Sam Baker
Jun 30, 20191 min read
Paint the stars
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. -Vincent Van Gogh
Sam Baker
Jun 30, 20191 min read
As I see them
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. -Pablo Picasso
Sam Baker
Jun 30, 20191 min read
Sam Baker
Jun 27, 20190 min read
also there is some kind of member thing going on that I don't understand. it will get fixed. I don't want a membership thing so please don't sign up. I am not sure what it does. ughh.
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