Not All Is Seen Tapestries
Description: A dramatic black and white conceptual portrait exploring identity, reflection, and the hidden side of what we see. Featuring a fragmented mirror composition and high-contrast monochrome photography, this minimalist design pairs the message “Not All Is Seen” with a mysterious, cinematic visual style.
Description: George Santayana quote: History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory. It might almost be said to be no science at all, if memory and faith in memory were not what science necessarily rest on. In order to sift evidence we must rely on some witness, and we must trust experience before we proceed to expand it. The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience ...
Description: Charles Baudelaire: You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it—it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
Description: Niccolò Machiavelli portrait and quote: All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
Description: Lou Andreas-Salomé quote: "The grave is not the end. From the graves of those we love most and where, with those we love most, are buried all our selfish drives and desires, we must draw the strength to dedicate ourselves wholly and unreservedly to the great purpose of our life: Behold: this is my religion."
Description: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote: To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.”
Description: Murasaki Shikibu quote: “So much for their looks; but their characters - that is a much more difficult matter. We all have our quirks and no one is ever all bad. Then again, it is not possible for everyone to be all things all of the time: attractive, restrained, intelligent, tasteful and trustworthy. We are all different and it is often difficult to know on which aspect to dwell.”
Description: George Sand quote: Nothing is so easy and so common as to deceive one's self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of the language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all rôles, disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write.
Description: The First Problem for All of Us Men and Women Is Not to Learn but to Unlearn — Gloria Steinem 1934 A powerful quote-inspired design celebrating critical thinking, personal growth, equality, and the courage to challenge old ideas. A meaningful choice for readers, activists, feminists, educators, and anyone who believes growth begins with unlearning. Perfect for everyday wear or as a thoughtful gift for someone who loves empowering quotes, women's history, social commentary, and inspirational messages. c
Description: Democratic Rep. Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico held a sign that read “this is not normal” as President Donald Trump greeted lawmakers upon entering the chamber before his address to a joint session of Congress. Republican Rep. Lance Gooden of Texas ripped the sign from Stansbury's hands.
The Lion Does Not Concern Himself At All - The Lion Is Depressed Tapestry
by Jack Edwards Designs
$30
