Quote by Jim Woodring
Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in natu

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobras hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning. – Jim Woodring

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That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know Ive paid homage to it many times in my drawings. – Jim Woodring

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The man who never dreams, goes slowly mad. – Thomas Dolby

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The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. – Samuel Johnson

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What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. – Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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Dreams have only one owner at a time. Thats why dreamers are lonely. – Erma Bombeck

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