Nature, Solitude, Meditation

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration. Henry Moore 

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration. Claude Monet

	Nature
		Sierra Nevada Mountains Albert Bierstadt
		The Domes of the Yosemite Albert Bierstadt
		Creative Reverie Roberta J. Loach
		The Bard Thomas  Jones Bridgeman.co.uk Image ID NGW 184271 The Bard with his harp receives inspiration from nature.
		The Bard John Martin
		The Bard Charles Hall and Samuel Middiman (after Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg),
		The Bard Benjamin West
		Quote with Nature Image

	Mountain Top Scenes
		Jumping for Joy Corbis 74195 (RM)
		Mountaineer atop a Mountain Tim Pannell Corbis CMP-01TP009-009 (RM)
		Working Toward Inspiration Eyewire.com
		Woman Standing on a Fence   Eyewire.com  ID 42161
		The Grand Canyon - Inspiration The mountaintop with sun rays coming through  the clouds and lightning flashes off in the distance.
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	Solitude	"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius." Edward Gibbon
	"Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than the suns and the stars. He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from traveling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions. "In the morning - solitude;" said Pythagoras; that Nature may speak to the imagination, as she does never in company, and that her favorite may take acquaintance with those divine strengths which disclose themselves to serious and abstracted thought. 'Tis very certain that Plato, Plotinus, Archimedes, Hermes, Newton, Milton, Wordsworth, did not live in a crowd, but descended into it from time to time as benefactors: and the wise instructor will press this point of securing to the young soul in the disposition of time and the arrangements of living, periods and habits of solitude." -- from Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Conduct of Life"
		Writing Home  Ditz Bridgeman.co.uk  21242
		Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic  Augustus  Earle  Bridgeman.co.uk   70530 Solitude, watching the horizon at sun set, in the hope of seeing a ship.
		Marc ChagallSolitude 1933 The Tel-Aviv Museum
		Solitude Frederic Leighton One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
		Artist in his Studio Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
	Meditation	is a form of solitude
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		Questions by Vidura srimadbhagavatam
		Kwannon Meditating on Human Life John La Farge  Corbis IX001307 (RM) Christie's Images
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Nature Scenes

Inspiration Points

Mountain Tops

Sun Coming thought Clouds, Trees, Mountains, Etc.

Lightning
Person Alone in Nature