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THE MASKED SOUL

Masks are layers of our souls. Here is a collection of ideas, images, and music -- all about beautiful masks. It’s nice to play the music in the video below while you view the rest of this post. It’s a terrific piece.

 

“I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.”

 

  • Stephen Hopkins

 

 

“Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when every one has to throw off his mask?”  

 

  • Soren Kierkegaard


“A mask tells us more than a face.”

 

  • Oscar Wilde


“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”

 

  • Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind


“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”

 

  • James A. Baldwin


“Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.”

 

  • Kevyn Aucoin


“Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.”

 

  • Robert Motherwell


“There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.”

 

  • Jerome Bruner


“Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.”

 

  • Sun Myung Moon


“Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.”

 

  • Gwyneth Paltrow

 

Read about Beautiful Masks all this week, as they relate to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact, including The Top 10 Most Beautiful Masks, Is This Really Happening?, Behind the Masked Fruit, Incredible Mask Art Now, Beautiful Mask Destinations, and Wonderful Painted Masks.

 

Get busy and enter the BN Competitions, Our theme this week is Beautiful Masks. Send in your images and ideas. Deadline is 11.03.13.

 

Photo: Courtesy of InterActiveMediaSW.

 

Also, check out our special competition: The Most Beautiful Sound in the World! We are thrilled about this effort, together with SoundCloud and The Sound Agency. And we can’t wait to hear what you’ve got!

 

 

Photo credits in order:

 

1. Video: Courtesy of The SimirilL.

2. Photo: JoDee Luna. Masquerade Mask.

3. Photo: Courtesy of Aha Travel. Masked Woman in Venice.

4. Image: Courtesy of Nexus Mods. Skyrim Mask.

5. Image: Courtesy of Anna Sapphire. Horns.

6. Photo: Courtesy of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Figure in Black (Girl with Stripes) by Robert Motherwell.

7. Image: Courtesy of Pollocks the Bollocks. Number 4: The Masked Owl.

8. Photo: Courtesy of Brenda Lyons. Phoenix Love Leather Mask.

9. Photo: Courtesy of Mama’s Little Muse. Mardi Gras Masks.

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