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The Colorful 95-year-old Ilona Royce-Smithkin

Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy and 95-year-old Artist Ilona Royce-Smithkin, October 25, 2015

I had the most delightful encounters this week as a result of my recent trip to Montenegro thanks to new friend Ari Seth Cohen. His book, Advanced Style, has spurned a community of glamorous women who are 70 years old and above. One of these women I met is 95-year-old Ilona Royce-Smithkin. With red hair and red eyelashes she created, she is a burst of color and energy.

Set Your Vision Free

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A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Set Your Vision Free – As Michelangelo said: “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

One of the jobs of an artist is to try to make real that force that you don’t really see it when you look in the mirror, you don’t really see it until you look at a somebody else.
- Ruby Dee

Every artist was first an amateur.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
- Henri Matisse

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
- Salvador Dali

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
- Andy Warhol