"A beautiful feature in the colour wood-cut, and one unique in printing, is colour gradation... Two brushes are sometimes used, one charged with more potent colour than the other. Line blocks are nearly always printed with some variation of tone, and often in colour too."

-- Walter J. Phillips

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“The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency ... At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world.”
“In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him.”
“I want players to look neat and responsible. Maybe it's old school, but it's kind of neat when people are always clean.”
“You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.”
“The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.”

Source : "Stella McCartney: 'Fashion people are pretty heartless'" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2009.
“Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day duties of common life be steps to heaven, and lift they heart hither.”
“So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.”
“It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.”

Source : Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.90, Seven Stories Press

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