"To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly."

-- Walter Darby Bannard

#Art Quotes #Past Quotes #Yesterday Quotes

“Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.”
“It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.”
“There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely”

Source : Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I'm swamped with input. I want input, but I am so far behind on what I got here that I can't keep up with what people are sending me.”

Source : Source: alanpaul.net
“Your disrespect for me is apparent. You never respected me when I think about it and you never liked me. But Iâ€™m the parent and youâ€™re the child and it is not your job to love me the way I love you. My love for you is unconditional and no matter what you decide in your life I will love you. Doesnâ€™t mean I have to like it, but I will always love you. Love, Dad”
“Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.”

Source : Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.66, Grove Press
“A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.”
“There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.”

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