"To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as Maynard Dixon. The great mood of his work is solitude, the effect of land and space on people. While his work stands perfectly well on its claims to beauty, it offers a spiritual view of the West indispensable to anyone who would understand it."

-- Thomas McGuane

#Spiritual Quotes #Distance Quotes #Light Quotes

“Maybe life is a board game, but I never get to roll the dice.”
“Each precious moment of your life in which you are frozen with fear is a moment when you are not being all you can be. In the end, that hurts more than anything. Succeeding or failing does not determine if we are surviving or living. Rather it is in our ability to reach beyond our present self-imposed definition of who we are, and to risk becoming more, that we are able to feel fully alive.”

Source : Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living: Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret”, p.98, Penguin
“I don't paint nature. I am nature.”
“I don't want to love you if you're only going to die.”

Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.243, Penguin
“I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.”
“The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly.”
“The economy is in tatters; your job is in trouble - if you still have a job. And you know what? I've been saying it for years.”
“When a man lies he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths men miscall their lives.”

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