James Lanigan Thompson MFA BFA

Pearl River, NY - United States

“We have to teach our eyes to look at nature, and there are many of us who have never seen it and never will.”

— Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
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“However clever you may be, Nature is your superior; however great your talent, nature is greater: and if you only obey nature you are sure to not be beside the mark. Great artists are truthful, and it is Nature who has taught them truth.”

– Gustave Fraipont

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'One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.', Leonardo da Vinci: '

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There's nothing as old and tiresome as human novelty;
there's nothing as immediate and as new as that which is most ancient,
which is always in the process of becoming,

by

Thomas Merton
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ODE TO SOLITUDE

Happy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air,
In his own ground.

Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,
Whose flocks supply him with attire,
Whose trees in summer yield him shade,
In winter fire.

Blest! who can unconcern’dly find
Hours, days, and years slide soft away,
In health of body, peace of mind,
Quiet by day,

Sound sleep by night; study and ease
Together mix’d; sweet recreation,
And innocence, which most does please,
With meditation.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.

by

Alexander Pope
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Great minds discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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