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"The real world is where the monsters are." ~Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief "Garden of Earthly Delights" in The...

"Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity." ~Damien Hirst, Engli...

"Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt." ~Christian Boltanski, French sculptor Made of recycle...

One of the few things I was willing to wake up at an ungodly hour for was to watch the sun rise over Cambodia 's greatest treasure: Ang...

The 10th century Banteay Srei , dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva , is distinctive among Angkor 's many temples because of the miniature ...

"Set wide the window. Let me drink the day." ~Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses Other than the enormous flo...

"The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk." ~Dustin Hoffman, American actor In the Phili...

"There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was be...

"My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story." ~Johnny Depp, American actor A cousin whose family moved to the U.S. w...

"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1...

"Things don't have to be extraordinary to be beautiful; even the ordinary can be beautiful." ~Matthew in Wicker Park (2...

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." ~Cicero The mural inside Fully Booked in Bonifacio High Street is pa...

"Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other." ~Paulo ...

"Most of the time, doors remain closed simply because they have not been tried to be opened!" ~Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish no...

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." ~Pablo Picasso After eight years painting the interior of the Abbey of O...

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." ~John Ruskin (1819–1900), English art critic The Abbey of Our La...

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty...

"Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions...

One wall of the Old Oven Art Cafe (see yesterday's post) displays framed photographs for sale.

The quirky Old Oven Art Cafe is filled with paintings, photographs, and unusual knick-knacks. Alone? Grab a magazine. With family and frie...