"Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully."

-- Pierre Loti

#Painting Quotes

“There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together.”
“Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.”
“The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye...”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
“Thoughts have no sex.”
“People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.”
“You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”

Source : Statement to the press in July 1969. "The Beatles: An Oral History". Book by Alan Lysaght and David Pritchard, p. 285, 1998.
“The chords in 'Light My Fire' are based on [John] Coltrane's version of this song. He just solos over A minor and B minor, which is exactly what we did. Coltrane had played with Miles on Kind of Blue and took the idea of modal soloing over one or two chords farther out than anybody. He was a real pioneer - he just kept evolving, going where no one had ever gone. He could always attain this state of ecstasy when he played. Live, there was so much energy, you couldn't believe it. He would play for hours. It was indescribable.”
“For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.”

Source : "Vermin: A Notebook" by John Kinsella, www.poetryfoundation.org. December 1, 2009.

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