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| A Bounty of Roses Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten Acrylic on Paper 8 1/2" x 12" Sold from Etsy |
Singing
is sweet, but be sure of this,
Lips only sing when they cannot kiss.
-James Thomson
Thursday, May 31, 2012
A Bounty of Roses
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Indiana Storyteller's Retreat
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| Indiana Storyteller's Retreat May 26th 2012 |
We had a wonderful time this past weekend swapping stories at the Indiana Storyteller's Retreat!
'Til next year my friends...
Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to
nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these
wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you.
– Joseph
Campbell
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Paper Kiss
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| The Paper Kiss Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten Acrylic on Paper 12 1/2 x 19 1/2" Original available on Etsy |
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
-Goethe
(It had to happen at some point that I would create a painting inspired by Klimt's The Kiss. A larger oil painting is to come...)
Monday, May 28, 2012
The Paper Dancer
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| The Paper Dancer Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten Watercolor and Pen on Paper 12 1/2 " x 19 1/2" Original available on Etsy |
If you can't get rid of your skeleton in the closet you had best teach it to dance.
-George Bernard Shaw
Friday, May 25, 2012
Nightime
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| Nightime Copyright 2011 Addie Hirschten Acrylic on Paperboard 11" x 14" |
Men are like the earth and we are the moon;
we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other,
because they don't see it - but there is.
-Olive Schreiner
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
-Leonardo da Vinci
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Mother and Child
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| Mother and Child Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten Oil on Canvas 11" x 14" Original available on Etsy |
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always
find forgiveness.
-Honoré de Balzac
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Pregnancy
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| Pregnancy Copyright 2002 Addie Hirschten Acrylic and Pen on Paper 8" x 10" |
Astonished- she remained
seeing the sun-stars
and the live-dead world
and being in the shade.
-Frida Kahlo
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Rest
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| Rest Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten Oil on Canvas 16" x 20" Prints available on Fine Art America |
Rest is not idleness,
and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day,
listening to the murmer of water,
or watching the clouds float across the sky,
is by no means a waste of time.
-John Lubbock
Take rest: a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
-Ovid
Monday, May 21, 2012
My New Book!
My new book, The Joy of Living, is now available!
This book is an exploration of philosophy and sexuality though my artwork. It is a coffee table book full of paintings and quotations meant to honor the beauty of our earth. It represents about 10 years worth of work. Whew!
May it inspire you.
(As a side note- the electronic format is MUCH cheaper than ordering a printed book. I receive the same amount of money for either version.) Thanks for your support everyone!
Friday, May 18, 2012
The Agreement
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| The Agreement Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten Oil on Canvas 16" x 20" Prints available on Fine Art America |
If you live to be a hundred,
I want to live to be a hundred minus
one day so I never have to live without you.
-A.A. Milne
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Vision
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| Vision Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten Oil on Canvas 9" x 12" Prints available on Fine Art America Original available on Etsy |
All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
-Andre Breton
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Mother Mary
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| Mother Mary Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten Oil on Canvas 11" x 14" Prints available on Fine Art America Original available on Etsy |
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.
They have clung to me all my life.
-Abraham Lincoln
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Love
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| Love Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten Oil on Canvas 9" x 12" Prints available on Fine Art America Original available on Etsy |
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
-C.S. Lewis
-C.S. Lewis
Monday, May 14, 2012
Women
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| Women Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten Oil on Canvas 11" x 14" Prints available on Fine Art America Original available on Etsy |
To look at a thing is different from seeing a thing.
And one does not see anything until one sees its beauty.
And one does not see anything until one sees its beauty.
-Oscar Wilde
Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.
-Christina Stead
Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.
-Christina Stead
Friday, May 11, 2012
The Spiral Dance
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| The Spiral Dance Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten Oil on Canvas 18" x 24" Reprints available on Fine Art America |
The universe is a fluid, ever-changing energy pattern,
not a collection of fixed and separate things.
What affects one thing affects, in some way, all things:
All is interwoven into the continuous fabric of being.
not a collection of fixed and separate things.
What affects one thing affects, in some way, all things:
All is interwoven into the continuous fabric of being.
-Starhawk
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Nothing
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| Nothing Copyright 2001 Addie Hirschten Watercolor on Paper 18" x 24" |
Nothing
can be created out of nothing.
-Lucretius
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Floribunda
I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself.
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| Flora Blossoms Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten Oil on Canvas 18" x 24" Reprints available on Fine Art America |
I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself.
And I
find sufficient purpose for my day.
-Robert Brault
(Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.)
-Robert Harbison
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Infinity
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| Infinity Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten Oil on Canvas 12" x 16" Original available for $175. on Etsy |
Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.
-Max Beckmann
Monday, May 7, 2012
Queen of the Night
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| Ishtar, Queen of the Night Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten Oil on Canvas 12" x 16" Reprints available on Fine Art America Original available for $175. on Etsy |
A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only;
not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.
-Saul Steinberg
(Parts of this image were inspired by a 4000 year old Babylonian sculpture.)
(Parts of this image were inspired by a 4000 year old Babylonian sculpture.)
Friday, May 4, 2012
Flora
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| Flora Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten Oil on Canvas 12" x 16" Reprints available on Fine Art America Original available for $175. on Etsy |
Tis my faith that every flower
enjoys the air it breathes.
enjoys the air it breathes.
-Wordsworth
Thursday, May 3, 2012
The Three Graces
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| The Three Graces Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten Pen on Paper 8 1/2" x 12" |
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers,
it shows he is a citizen of the world,
and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands,
but a continent that joins to them.
-Francis Bacon Sr.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
The Orchid
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| The Orchid Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten Pencil on Paper |
If you had loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it always linger?
-Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Man and Woman
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| Man and Woman Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten Oil on Canvas 12" x 12" Original available for $150. on Etsy |
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing in to one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
-Margaret Fuller