"My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour and space are at the whim of reality, their discovery and organization is the assignment of the realist painter."

-- Ralph Goings

#Reality Quotes #Light Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“Wander here a whole summer, if you can ... Thousands of wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted”
“If an apple was magnified to the size of the Earth, then the atoms in the apple would be approximately the size of the original apple.”
“My love of words, alcohol, and stage antics basically cemented me as a rapper, but it wasn't a career that I wanted to do. It was just, "I like to do all these things at one time."”
“I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.”
“Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.”

Source : Joan Aiken (2015). “The Last Slice of Rainbow: And Other Stories”, p.114, Open Road Media
“I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup.”
“Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.”

Source : George Rodrigue (1999). “Blue Dog Man”, Stewart, Tabori and Chang
“I do not believe that I'm sacrificing, in fact I feel very uneasy when others used the word sacrifice to describe my life. It sounds like I'm demanding returns for my investments. I chose to walk on this journey, because I solely believed in it and wholeheartedly decided to do so, and I'm willing and able to pay for the consequences...”

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