"At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a museum since I was 18 years old, not for my painting but for the prehistoric objects I found. That's how I started thinking about art."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Pierre Soulages

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“My life is one long daily, hourly record of answered prayer. For physical health, for mental overstrain, for guidance given marvelously, for errors and dangers averted, for enmity to the Gospel subdued, for food provided at the exact hour needed, for everything that goes to make up life and my poor service. I can testify, with a full and often wonder-stricken awe, that I believe God answers prayer.”
“The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into three-dimensional space.”

Source : "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.
“Science has taken away our religion.”

Source : Bryan Appleyard (2004). “Understanding the Present: An Alternative History of Science”, p.232, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.”
“If we think of the Holy Spirit only as an impersonal power or influence, then our thought will constantly be, how can I get hold of and use the Holy Spirit; but if we think of Him in the biblical way as a divine Person, infinitely wise, infinitely holy, infinitely tender, then our thought will constantly be, 'How can the Holy Spirit get hold of and use me?'”
“Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.”
“I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.”
“Stress is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven't fallen asleep yet”

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