Elizabeth Borton de Trevino famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.
-- Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

#Art #Eye #Color
And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?
-- Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

#Dark #Hands #Two
Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person who calls himself merciful, or just, or kindly. Usually these are the most cruel, niggardly and selfish people, and slaves learn to fear the master who prefaces his remarks with tributes to his own virtues.
-- Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

#Selfish #Hypocrisy #Long
But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss.
-- Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

#Time #Loss #Traitor
Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.
-- Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

#Reading #Joy #Topics
I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.
-- Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

#Goes On #Slippery Slope #Intrigue
Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.
-- Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

#Art #Should

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.
We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
As photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. Move on objects with your eye straight on, to the left, around on the right. Watch them grow large as they approach, group and regroup as you shift your position. Relationships gradually emerge and sometimes assert themselves with finality. And that's your picture.
If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.
Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
Love overcomes hate. Love has no color. Love has no orientation. All is love.
There is no old Adam Young, there is no new Adam Young, merely different colors andï»¿ different brushstrokes over the same canvas.
It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.
If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals and should go to prison.

Elizabeth Borton de Trevino famous quotes

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