"Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes."

-- Joni Eareckson Tada

#Thinking Quotes #Color Quotes #Long Quotes

“I can't jump into other people's shoes, I can only speak for me. My songs are pretty much sermons put to music.”
“I may film scenes I had no intention of filming; things suggest themselves on location, and we improvise. I try not to think about it too much. Then, in the cutting room, I take the film and start to put it together, and only then do I begin to get an idea of what it is about.”
“When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it.”
“t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.”
“The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.”
“There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.”
“People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.”
“Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.”

Source : Alan Ayckbourn (1988). “The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays”, p.28, Grove Press

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