"Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter of an inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling of the universe than if you pretended to be doing the whole sky."

-- Nicole Krauss

#Giving Up Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Sky Quotes

“God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.”
“Sympathy is the charm of human life ...”

Source : Grace Aguilar (1858). “The Mother's Recompense: a Sequel to Home Influence”, p.65
“I like someone who can take the reins, who knows what they want and is strong with me.”
“We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.”
“I grew up extremely fast. I was racing at the age of five. I was racing on a semi-national level by the time I was 16. It makes you grow up fast.”

Source : "A CSJ Conversation with Justin Allgaier". Interview with CSJ, christiansportsjournal.com. March 10, 2017.
“I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends”
“I think that no matter what you do, whether you rodeo, whether you work in an office, you work in the oilfield or you play music for a living, eventually if you do enough of it, the devil in the back of your head tries to turn it into work. You have to find new ways to make it new and make it exciting to keep that drive there.”
“He wasn't mine anywhere except in my heart.”

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