"Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful."

-- Francesco Clemente

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“Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet.”

Source : James Dwight Dana (1849). “United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 Under the Command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N: Geology”, p.615
“Contempt is a well-recognized defensive reaction.”
“Jesus Christ said, 'I pray your faith will not fail.' This means your faith will be tested. What is testing your faith right now?”
“The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.”
“A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.”

Source : E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.147, Random House
“But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It's a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it's that private perpetual struggle. Put down that magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are.”

Source : "The New Yorker’s One Over 40" by Steve Almond, therumpus.net. June 14, 2010.
“Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.”
“If you don't act now while it's fresh in your mind, it will probably join the list of things you were always going to do but never quite got around to. Chances are you'll also miss some opportunities.”

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