- Ann Fawssett-Atkin
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Isaac Newton at the Edge of the Ocean and the Oceans of Space (I found this quote some weeks after I painted the picture. It could be your gnome or my gnome at the edge of the Ocean etc but I included the quote because I think it fits the painting so well - and also gives an interesting insight into Newtons mind.) Before the grandeur and intricacy of nature, he was, like Ptolemy and Kepler, exhilarated as well as disarmingly modest. Just before his death he wrote: I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the seashore, and diverting myself, in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. I love this quote and always offer it to accompany the many prints I sell of this picture at my little gallery here in Devon. People always want to have it.
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Elizabeth Janus 22 Feb 2011
Dear Ann ...just can't take my eyes of it ..this is greatCalvin McFarlane 31 Jan 2010
i keep coming back and peaking at this one dear Ann. it resides with my favorites and is such a wonderful creation.John Cappello 23 Feb 2009
Beautifully done,Great Work, your talent is evident not only in your ability to create scenarios but also in your vivid colors.darek koziol 05 Jul 2008
Your imagination is really magical Ann :), thx for comm. , best greetingsTammy Kuenzli 02 Jun 2008
Exquisite!