Looking to Sea: Britain Through the Eyes of its Artists

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James Mercer Langston Hughes (1901–1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist.

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It’s not known who came up with this clever play on words that serves as a example of sea quotes about life. The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient … One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach—waiting for a gift from the sea. That amongst his studies he made such a powerful quote about the sea shows how much of an effect it had on him in his work.

Our survey, looking into the mental health of Cornish residents over the first lockdown, found evidence of an increase in the number of people with symptoms of anxiety and depression. As a young man, JFK and his family spent summers at their Cape Cod home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, where he enjoyed sailing and swimming in the ocean. This quote may sound quite profound already, but when you realise that Webb Chiles is a sailor himself who has circumnavigated the world four times, you really feel his passion for the ocean and nature shining through. Looking to Sea' considers ten pivotal artworks of the sea, from Vanessa Bell’s Studland Beach, one of the first modernist paintings in Britain, to Paul Nash’s work bearing the scars of his experience in the trenches and Martin Parr’s photographs of seaside resorts in the 1980s, which raised controversial questions of class. To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim—the rocks—the motion of the waves—the ships with men in them; What stranger miracles are there?

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Just as the tide changes, other things in our life can change too, and this can push us towards the path that we were destined to follow. Taken from the hugely popular third Harry Potter book, Prisoner of Azkaban, this short and snappy quote beautifully sums up how our family can look after us even when times are rough. The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. It’s certainly easy to feel inspired when you’re standing on the deck looking out to the ocean, and few people take a cruise without feeling overwhelming joy. Taken from the 1960 movie, this quote definitely feels like it could apply to a lot of people who are passionate about cruising.In an interview with The Guardian, Dr Mathew White, an environmental psychologist, said there are three key factors which link coastal living and wellbeing. Joly also developed the Joly color screen, the first successful process for producing color photographs from a single plate.

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The world feels like a strange place for many of us right now, but we’re lucky here in Cornwall to be surrounded by the mental health boosting powers of the sea.Kathryn Kuhlman was an evangelist in America, and so it is no surprise she came up with this quote about enduring life’s challenges, a message that is consistent with some parables and lessons from religion. There’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away. So, as part of Time to Talk day this Thursday and to help residents in Cornwall with support and information, we wanted to look at a few ways people could proactively look after their wellbeing in this lockdown.