"A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities..."

-- Franklin Carmichael

#Inspiration Quotes #Artist Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.”
“I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read”
“The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part, the number of ships sunk, and the importance of its outcome. It included every form of naval warfare of the 20th century: gunnery duels between battleships; destroyer battles at night and by day, as ferocious and sustained as any at the Battle of Jutland; submarines that stalked the depths; sinking many ships; and finally, carrier warfare on a scale never dreamed of even by the most ardent enthusiasts of air warfare at sea.”
“The inherent lightness or darkness of a form - its local-tone - is a given quality of all forms. It is affected by, but separate from, the light and dark areas that result from light falling on forms.”
“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.”

Source : Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”
“A small pepperoni pizza on a tortilla is healthier than salmon teriyaki with rice and carrots.”
“Sometimes itâ€™s hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesnâ€™t just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi,”
“For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?”

Source : Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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