"In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light."

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Source : "Readings in American Art, 1900-1975". Book by Barbara Rose, p. 117, 1975.

Hans Hofmann

#Light Quotes #Color Quotes #Energy Quotes

“It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.”

Source : Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan
“Who works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be, That this thing shall be added unto thee.”

Source : Kenyon Cox (1905). “Sculptors of the early Italian renaissance. Perugino. Michelangelo. The pictures of Venice. Veronese. Dürer. Rubens. Frans Hals. Rembrandt. William Blake”
“John McCain is a liar and flip-flopper and panderer and bully and whiner. And it seems to be working.”

Source : "Does being a jerk work?" by Michael Tomasky, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2008.
“There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.”
“You beef wit me, I'm-a even the score equally. Take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ***** legally.”
“Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader”
“Film is a truly magical medium.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the way most of us feel in our lives. The success of 'E.R.,' I think, is not relying on overly sentimental stories that are solved where people's lives wrap up nicely with happy endings.”

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