"Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint."

-- Romare Bearden

#Discovery Quotes #Finding Yourself Quotes #Horizon Quotes

“If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat.”
“A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.”
“You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.”

Source : Ernest J. Gaines, John Lowe (1995). “Conversations with Ernest Gaines”, p.128, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that's happened to us?”

Source : "Coburn Warns of 'Lesbianism' in Schools". www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2004.
“Just write what you love and what a movie you'd like to see.”
“Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity”

Source : Alexander Waugh (2008). “Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family”, p.453, Anchor
“Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it.”

Source : Hsing Yun (2016). “Describing the Indescribable: A Commentary on the Diamond Sutra”, p.128, Simon and Schuster
“Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. 'Foster has 'found' the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to celebrate them. For they are, as he shows us, the instruments of joy, the way into mature Christian spirituality and abundant life.”

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