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THE ART OF CHILL

Photographer looks through camera on tripod at ocean as sun sets under cloudy sky.

By Nathan Rupert. “The Photographer.”

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Sun shines through opening in giant boulder jutting out of sea at twilight.

By Justin Kern. “Called from darkness by the song of the sea.”

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. It is about creating yourself.”

-- George Bernard Shaw

Woman paints canvas on easel at beach under grey cloudy sky.

By Shawn Harquail. “Perspectives.”

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

--- Thomas Merton

By Nelson Wu. “Painter.”

“Every artist was first an amateur”

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

By Viv Lynch. “Portrait of A Painter.”

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”

-- Pablo Picasso

Artist applies paint with brush to canvas.

By Matt Madd. “Painter.”

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”

-- Edgar Degas

Artist in top hat stands in front of painting on easel by the sea.

By Luca Bartolini. “iPod Monet.”

“The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty really are in ourselves.”

-- Kahlil Gibran

Silhouette of photographer with his camera and tripod standing on rocks overlooking ocean at sunset.

By Susanne Nilsson. “Silhouette of a Photographer.”

“You don't take a photograph, you make it”

--- Ansel Adams.

Colored landscape of Painted Desert in Arizona.

By Joe Jiang. “Painted Desert.” Arizona.

“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”

-- Henry David Thoreau

Streams of rainbow light coming from sun shining through trees.

By Cathy. “Pinhole rainbows.”

“We don’t see things the way they are. We see them the way WE are.”

-- Talmud

Double rainbow shines through clouds with mountains in background at Denali National Park, in Alaska.

By Grant Eaton. “Denali Double Rainbow Panorama.” Denali National Park. Alaska.

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

-- John Muir

Artist palette, brushes, paints and paint splatters.

By Ruth Hartnup. “Art space.”

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Painting of seascape with thick impasto brushstrokes.

By Arturo Espinosa. “Seascape.”

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Woman sits at easel and paints landscape with fountain.

By Mark's Postcards from Beloit. “Fountain View.”