"An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called contemporary, where it would be foolish of me to try to enter. But I can claim my own phenomenon..."

-- Joseph Plaskett

#Past Quotes #Trying Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“I think more important than law is the hearts of people.”
“Man is aware; he perceives and interprets the world around him. When he uses logic as a tool for interpretation, it becomes science; when he uses feelings for interpretation, it becomes poetry; when he takes a longer view of his observations, it becomes wisdom.”
“I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery of stone panels, which I encountered and stood in silence before on top of a distant odd-shaped hill in northern Kenya. For whatever reason the muses have most unexpectedly invited me to join this immense procession. I am humbled and delighted.”
“Each painting evolves freely and independently.”
“I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.”
“The covenant of your servanthood is that you be a servant to God, not to someone else, and that you know that everything except God is a servant to God, as He Most High has said, "There is none in the heaven and the earth but cometh unto the Compassionate as a servant."”
“It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.”

Source : Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.28, Macmillan
“A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.”

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