"There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life."

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Source : Charles Ives (2004). “129 Songs”, p.30, A-R Editions, Inc.

Charles Ives

#Art Quotes #Live Life Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon had risen. I have never forgot those shadows and am often trying to paint them.”

Source : "The Life and Letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher". Book by Alfred H. Palmer, London, 1892.
“In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.”
“I'm still constantly learning and that's what keeps me excited about the guitar.”
“When in doubt take a bath”
“I have to believe I got some kind of say over our lives.”
“I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I feel nostalgia for things I knew I hated when they were happening, for days spent at the beach or the swimming pool with my sisters. When I pick my memories apart, I realise my mind has merely played back the objective ingredients, the clichÃ©d apparatus of happiness, the sun, the sound of splashing water, ice-cream on parched lips and cold fizzy drink on a hot tongue, and laugher too. My memory often peddles on the falsehood of past happiness. I should know this.”
“He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.”
“We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.”

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