"Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting."

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Emily Carr

#Trying Quotes #Helping Quotes #Painting Quotes

“God wonâ€™t give you more than you can handle.â€™â€ Holiday chuckled. â€œAnd we just wish He didnâ€™t trust us so much, right?”
“I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelopes us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion. It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do so is the end of the tender ego.”
“A good girl is supposed to be very quiet”
“From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world.”
“Flexibility comes from having multiple choices; wisdom comes from having multiple perspectives.”
“To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.”
“Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.”

Source : Kenzō Tange (1970). “Kenzo Tange, 1946-1969; Architecture and Urban Design”
“Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood.”

Source : Howard Bloom (2000). “Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century”, Wiley

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