Islands
"I feel we are all islands - in a common sea." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Each of us is an island, remote and distinct from all others because no one knows us nearly as well as we know ourselves. Nor is it possible to know anyone else that well. It's difficult enough to know what is on the mind of another person even in the most intimate of situations, and then we may be mistaken.”
“We are so different that we often have trouble conducting a conversation with others because we think so differently, our experiences are so different, our interests so different, our world view so unique that we must turn to small talk to get through brief periods that might otherwise be awkward.”
“The confusion that many of us experience in our "common sea" causes some of us to behave in ways that cannot make us proud of ourselves as a species. Yet all around us, on every day, in every part of the world, many of us--largely unheralded-- show ourselves to be magnificent and special representatives of what we know as human life.”
Bill Allin
1995 year, Oil x Canvas, 83x93 centimeters, St. Petersburg, signed as Y. Gribanovsky
Artist’s possession 2011
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Islands surreal painting by George Grie