"The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space."

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Source : Letter to F.W Weber, 1950.

Maxfield Parrish

#Color Quotes #Space Quotes #Light Quotes

“Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.”
“Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.”

Source : "This milquetoast consensus is unnerved by radical faith" by Tristram Hunt, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2007.
“We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them...”
“It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of all kinds.”

Source : Kristian Birkeland (1908). “The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition 1902-1903”
“People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.”
“Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.”
“What's everybody's business is nobody's business ...”

Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (2012). “A White Heron and Other Stories”, p.67, Courier Corporation
“I'm from a family of six men, so I'm bound to be physical.”

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