I do occasionally rotate my art. Sometimes it's because I want a change and other times it's because the arrangement never quite worked for me. A few months back I was in a decorative mood and did a new vignette on the end table in the LR and then it hit me about a certain arrangement for the wall above with stuff I've had for a few years, but never felt right in the other locations. I doubt I'll change that one out now for a long time. My hallway has three wall ledges with photos propped against the wall on the one side (all b&w) and a large photo gallery on the other (all color) as well as various framed tabletop photos throughout the house and I change those out with my favorites as time goes on.

I agree palimpsest! I am amazed at how many of his items resemeble those of famous and noted midcentury designers. I think the purple textile he is just marketing as a second party. I can find it for sale with the same frame for the same price at other vendors. The bird one I found when researching the artist at different vendors. There are a lot of vendors selling it, but all for $2500 on up.

I have that four seasons "Winter" print matted and framed, Boop. I love it and have it hanging on my kitchen mantle every December! Living here in New Mexico, which is an artist's mecca, it's very easy fall into collecting art. We have many, many large framed photos here in our home and at our clinic from wildlife photographer, Phil Sonier. We love his work! I also have 3 by a favorite NM pastel artist. We have a large oil over our living room fireplace by NM artist, Michael McCullough, and another of his pieces in our clinic. We've also bought his paintings to give as gifts a few times. But the rest have been purchased at gallery openings and shows, just whenever I happen to fall crazy in love with a particular piece . . . which is too often!

Thomas Browne Quotes British - Scientist October 19, 1605 - October 19, 1682 Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. Thomas Browne Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. Thomas Browne We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. Thomas Browne All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. Thomas Browne Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. Thomas Browne Death is the cure for all diseases. Thomas Browne To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy. Thomas Browne Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them. Thomas Browne Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. Thomas Browne There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. Thomas Browne Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death. Thomas Browne Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. Thomas Browne Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. Thomas Browne Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. Thomas Browne A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. Thomas Browne Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous. Thomas Browne Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. Thomas Browne Leigh Hunt Quotes English - Poet October 19, 1784 - August 28, 1859 Colors are the smiles of nature. Leigh Hunt The groundwork of all happiness is health. Leigh Hunt Stolen kisses are always sweetest. Leigh Hunt If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. Leigh Hunt The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. Leigh Hunt Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice. Leigh Hunt The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. Leigh Hunt There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination. Leigh Hunt Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses. Leigh Hunt It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. Leigh Hunt Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant. Leigh Hunt Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears. Leigh Hunt If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating. Leigh Hunt The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there. Leigh Hunt We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. Thomas Browne It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike. Thomas Browne As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. Thomas Browne It is we that are blind, not fortune. Thomas Browne Lewis Mumford Quotes American - Sociologist October 19, 1895 - January 26, 1990 A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. Lewis Mumford A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail. Lewis Mumford In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer. Lewis Mumford Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet. Lewis Mumford However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. Lewis Mumford The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. Lewis Mumford Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. Lewis Mumford A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. Lewis Mumford To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. Lewis Mumford It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless. Lewis Mumford The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. Lewis Mumford Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. Lewis Mumford War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. Lewis Mumford War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing. Lewis Mumford Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. Lewis Mumford Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. Lewis Mumford Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development. Lewis Mumford New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city. Lewis Mumford Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. Lewis Mumford Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. Lewis Mumford The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live. Lewis Mumford One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence. Lewis Mumford Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century. Lewis Mumford The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood. Lewis Mumford Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. Lewis Mumford Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. Lewis Mumford Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed. Lewis Mumford Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. Lewis Mumford The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does. Lewis Mumford The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. Lewis Mumford