"There's always a joy in newness as a painter, and in sub-Saharan Africa, I encountered different realities with regard to light and how it bounces across the skin. The way that blues and purples come into play. In India and Sri Lanka, it was no different. It became a moment in which I had an opportunity to learn as a painter how to create the body in full form, and that's a very material and aesthetic thing. This is not conceptual. It's all an abstraction."

-- Kehinde Wiley

#Opportunity Quotes #Reality Quotes #Light Quotes

“I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.”
“When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness.”

Source : Herman Koch (2012). “The Dinner”, p.42, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy ...”

Source : Winifred Holtby (2011). “South Riding”, p.164, Random House
“So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.”
“Life is a very beautiful dream. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet”

Source : Christopher Fowler (2009). “Bryant and May On The Loose: (Bryant & May Book 7)”, p.121, Random House
“Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.”
“... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.”
“Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.”

Source : Nelson Goodman (1978). “Ways of Worldmaking”, p.17, Hackett Publishing

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