"I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings... but in the afternoon, sitting in the shade... with stiff fingers and chilled bones... the water froze in little cakes all over the picture."

-- Howard Pyle

#Morning Quotes #Cake Quotes #Water Quotes

“I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so in order to come out on the other side, to experience a humanity that is neither colorless nor reducible to color.”
“That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.”

Source : Art-nonsense and Other Essays (1929) "Slavery and Freedom"
“The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.”
“Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.”
“A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals - solving our world's problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion and tradition - provides ample grounds for a purposive existence. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.”
“During the latency years, American children need experiences that promote academic talents, a sense of responsibility, and most important, a belief that they can attain the goals valued by self and community. They need reassurance that these goals are attainable.”
“The significance and joy in my science comes in those occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, 'So that's how God did it.' My goal is to understand a little corner of God's plan.”
“You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.”

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