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Vittore Carpaccio, St. George and the Dragon (detail), 1502, tempera on canvas (Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Venice)
“A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.”
Seated figure of the dragon king on throne merging from waves. In front are two dragons and attendant behind. Found/acquired Korea. Date: mid-20th century. Textile. (British Museum)
“Faerie contains many things besides elves and fays and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are one in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.”
“We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”
Wassily Kandinsky, Moonlight Night, 1907, linocut (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia)
“Never laugh at live dragons.”
Katherine Pyle, Dragon rearing up to reach medieval knight on ledge, 1932 (published in Charlemagne & His Knights by Katharine Pyle, J. B. Lippincott Co., 1932, page 80), oil on board
“Speak politely to an enraged dragon.”
Ivan Bilibin, Zmey Gorynych, 1912
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
“Be kind to dragons, for thou art crunchy when toasted and taste good with ketchup.”
Workshop of Agnolo Gaddi (Italian, Florentine, active by 1369-died 1396), Saint Margaret and the Dragon, tempera on wood, gold ground, 9 1/8 x 8 in. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY)
“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
“I desired dragons with a profound desire.”
