"I always start a painting with the sky."

-- Alfred Sisley

#Sky Quotes #Painting Quotes

“A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he's looking, he's free, and he finds things he never expected.”

Source : "Sommarboken". Book by Tove Jansson, 1972.
“Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.”
“I know the Chicago media will write a lot of bad things, but they'll write a lot of good things too. I can live with that. In Cleveland, all I got was negative press.”
“Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.”
“This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affectations glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn.”
“Healing depends on listening with the inner ear - stopping the incessant blather, and listening. Fear keeps us chattering - fear that wells up from the past, fear of blurting out what we really fear, fear of future repercussions. It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead to a different future if we dared to be whole in the present.”
“In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.”
“The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.”

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