"Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying."

-- Nell Irvin Painter

#Art Quotes #Fun Quotes #Satisfying Quotes

“More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs.”
“My ambition is peace and perfection.”
“Space is hard - but worth it. We will persevere and move forward together.”
“Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.”

Source : "Briefwechsel ('Correspondence')". Book edited by Arthur Henkel, Volume 7, p. 165, 1955 - 1975.
“The devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist. It is the highest of all devotions.”
“Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.”
“Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about their origins and forget that though they are similar, they are entirely different, and though they share a certain set of attributes, one can never be the other. Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one because the way they wedge themselves into a sentence changes everything.”
“Survival often feels like an indignity.”

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