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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351253" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Candle Hat</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In most self-portraits it is the face that dominates:<br>Cezanne is a pair of eyes swimming in brushstrokes,<br>Van Gogh stares out of a halo of swirling darkness,<br>Rembrant looks relieved as if he were taking a breather<br>from painting The Blinding of Sampson.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But in this one Goya stands well back from the mirror<br>and is seen posed in the clutter of his studio<br>addressing a canvas tilted back on a tall easel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He appears to be smiling out at us as if he knew<br>we would be amused by the extraordinary hat on his head<br>which is fitted around the brim with candle holders,<br>a device that allowed him to work into the night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You can only wonder what it would be like<br>to be wearing such a chandelier on your head<br>as if you were a walking dining room or concert hall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But once you see this hat there is no need to read<br>any biography of Goya or to memorize his dates.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To understand Goya you only have to imagine him<br>lighting the candles one by one, then placing<br>the hat on his head, ready for a night of work.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Imagine him surprising his wife with his new invention,<br>the laughing like a birthday cake when she saw the glow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Imagine him flickering through the rooms of his house<br>with all the shadows flying across the walls.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Imagine a lost traveler knocking on his door<br>one dark night in the hill country of Spain.<br>&quot;Come in, &quot; he would say, &quot;I was just painting myself,&quot;<br>as he stood in the doorway holding up the wand of a brush,<br>illuminated in the blaze of his famous candle hat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Billy+Collins">Billy Collins</a><div class=q>
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