Philosophy Selections - "ODE TO BEAUTY"
"Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty..." is but one of eight different texts that spill kaleidoscopically across the painting, each related to the central theme of beauty. In bold blues, yellows, greens, and purples, Susan has created a laudatory celebration of beauty using the classical words of Hopkins, Emerson, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Keats, and the Psalms.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "The Rhodora." Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose! I never thought to ask, I never knew; But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.
Gerard Manley Hopkins, from "The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo." Resign them, sign them, seal them, send them, motion them with breath, And with sighs soaring, soaring sighs, deliver Them; beauty-in-the-ghost, deliver it, early now, long before death Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.
Gerard Manley Hopkins, from "The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo." Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.
Emily Dickinson, from #1474. For Beauty is Infinity - And power to be finite ceased Before Identity was leased.
Psalms 29:2 ...worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Beauty is the creator of the universe.
William Shakespeare, from Sonnet 54. O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
John Keats, from "Ode to a Grecian Urn." "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
"Ode to Beauty"
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Edition is limited to 1,000 signed and numbered prints from an original watercolor.
Print Image Size: 13 1/8" x 13 1/8"
Print Paper Size: 16" x 16"
Frame Size: 20" x 20"
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