Xavier de Poret (1894 - 1975)
Cecil Beaton - Erwin Blumenfeld, 1946
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” Cecil Beaton
Albert Einstein
“ The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” — Albert Einstein
“So the man gave him a pair of snowshoes.” Kay Nielsen, plate from “The Three Princesses of Whiteland,” in East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North (London, 1914). Reproduced, from the first printing, in Taschen’s centennial edition (April 2020).
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“Sir Olaf in a kingdom of wraiths and ghosts.” Kay Nielsen, illustration (with detail) for In Powder and Crinoline, by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913). Personal photo of the original watercolor painting, on display in “Kay Nielsen’s Enchanted Vision: The Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection,” exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, January 19, 2020.
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Basilosaurus from the Prehistoric Mammals Coloring Book, published in 1991 by Jan Sovak
