The Best of Mad Swirl : 01.21.17
"Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive… " ~ Jeff Koons••• The Mad Gallery •••“Transcendence” (above) by featured artist William Zuback. To see more of...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 02.04.17
"All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name." ~ Ugo Betti••• The Mad Gallery •••“Chrysalis”...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 02.11.17
"The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said." ~ Hans-Georg Gadamer••• The Mad Gallery •••“the forgotten (1)” (above) by featured artist Allen...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 02.18.17
"A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free." ~ Nikos Kazantzakis••• The Mad Gallery •••“the forgotten (3)” (above) by featured artist Allen Forrest. To see more...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 02.26.17
"...once you get to the point where you're actually doing things for truth's sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you're harmonizing with a greater power." ~ George Harrison••• The Mad...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 03.05.17
"A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us." ~ Lucy Larcom••• The Mad Gallery •••“Vancouver Transit (1)” (above) by featured artist Allen Forrest. To see...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 03.12.17
"The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 03.19.17
"All art is a confession." ~ Gaston Lachaise••• The Mad Gallery •••“The Uncontrollable Laughter of Moonlight Dancing Through the Graveyard” (above) by featured artist Bill Wolak. To see more of Bill’s...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 03.26.17
"If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved." ~ Gregory Corso••• The Mad Gallery •••“The Same Lost Wind Reflected in Every Dream Mirror” (above) by featured artist Bill Wolak. To see more of...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 04.02.17
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself." ~ Abraham Maslow••• The Mad Gallery •••“The Scream That Binds Us” (above) by...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 04.09.17
"Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry." ~ Charles Baudelaire••• The Mad Gallery •••“Strike!” (above) by featured artist David Ross.Our newest featured artist at Mad...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 04.16.17
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." ~ Leonardo da Vinci••• The Mad Gallery •••“MOS” (above) by featured artist David Ross. To see more of David’s mad illustrations, as well as our other...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 04.23.17
"Caress the detail, the divine detail." ~ Vladimir Nabokov••• The Mad Gallery •••“Throb & Ween” (above) by featured artist David Ross. To see more of David’s mad illustrations, as well as our other...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 04.30.17
"Everything starts as somebody's daydream." ~ Larry Niven••• The Mad Gallery •••“NORM” (above) by featured artist David Ross. To see more of David’s mad illustrations, as well as our other featured...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 05.07.17
"Imagination is the eye of the soul." ~ Joseph Joubert••• The Mad Gallery •••“SOAPBOX” (above) by featured artist David Ross. To see more of David’s mad illustrations, as well as our other featured...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 05.13.17
"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center." ~ Seamus Heaney••• The Mad Gallery •••“MEAT” (above) by featured artist Joseph Shepard.Mad Swirl’s newest...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 05.20.17
"My works are an imitation of my own past and present." ~ Barbara Hepworth••• The Mad Gallery •••“LITTLE LAMB” (above) by featured artist Joseph Shepard. To see more of Joseph’s mad collages, as well...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 05.27.17
"Art is the triumph over chaos." ~ John Cheever••• The Mad Gallery •••“POWER” (above) by featured artist Joseph Shepard. To see more of Joseph’s mad collages, as well as our other featured artists,...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 06.03.17
"Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh." ~ Allen Ginsberg••• The Mad...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 06.10.17
"I do not innovate. I transmit." ~ Andre Derain••• The Mad Gallery •••“Your Daughter is Older Than You Think” (above) by featured artist Joseph Shepard. To see more of Joseph’s mad collages, as well as...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 06.17.17
"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality..." ~ Charles Eames••• The Mad Gallery •••“Street Art, Belfast” (above) by featured artist...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 06.24.17
"It's almost required with artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere." ~ George Michael••• The Mad Gallery •••“Queer Power” (above) by featured artist David J. Thompson. To see...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 07.02.17
"Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy." ~ Wislawa Szymborska••• The Mad Gallery •••“Street Joyce” (above) by featured artist David J. Thompson. To see...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 07.08.17
••• The Mad Gallery •••Cobbler” (above) by featured artist David J. Thompson. To see more of David’s mad snaps, as well as our other featured artists, visit our Mad Gallery!••• The Poetry Forum •••This...
View ArticleThe Best of Mad Swirl : 07.16.17
“Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.” ~ Tony Kushner••• The Mad Gallery •••"People’s Republic of Cork” (above) by featured artist David J. Thompson. To see more of David’s...
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