Yesterday at the Margaretsville Art Shack Gallery (see previous post, Port Moody Visit), I noticed this poster ‘The Beauty of Aging. A Journey of Art’, produced by the Artists Circle of the Annapolis Valley. I wanted to read the eight quotations, ranging from Keith Richards to Frank Kafka.
I did not have a camera. Today, I returned with my iPad (and camera).
I thought the poster was worth sharing. I liked the message ‘Youth is a gift. But age is a work of Art’.
I am sure we could debate the selected quotations., and the authors.
I think the poster would be worth printing on paper.
Nothing further to add.
POSTSCRIPT
The quotes, as originally photographed, were difficult to read due to the iPhone image’s original size and blur. Putting the image through Gemini AI, however, allowed the deciphering of each quote.
Gemini … “Here are the eight quotes from the parchment notes surrounding the artwork, transcribed from top to bottom, left to right:”
Top Left
- “Youth is a gift, but age is a work of art.”— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Top Right
- “The Spirit never ages.”— Isabel Allende
Upper Left (Middle-Top)
- “Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.”— Keith Richards
Upper Right (Middle-Top)
- “Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”— Betty Friedan
Lower Left (Middle-Bottom)
- “Aging is not about how many years have passed, but how much life you’ve embraced.”— Sophia Loren
Lower Right (Middle-Bottom)
- “Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”— Franz Kafka
Bottom Left
- “Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
Bottom Right
- “The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.”— Frank Lloyd Wright
Postscript
Thank you Edward for applying AI to the eight quotations. He is an artist, and collaborator. Thanks, again.
Ernest Blair Experiment 