"Painting is the art of hollowing a surface."

-- Georges Seurat

#Art Quotes #Painting Quotes #Surface Quotes

“Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.”
“I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.”
“Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.”
“I think [Theosophical and Masonic books] wasn't that I was inspired so much. I was corroborated by them.”
“In a field I am the absence of field.That is always the case. Wherever I am, I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the space where my body has been. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.”

Source : Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.79, Knopf
“Ministry is being one of theses sent out ones, a labourer of love.”
“I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her every need for three years might have looked codependent but it wasn't because it was what I wanted to do.”
“I wish to call on you to join hands in the building of a world in which less people will be forced to flee, and in which refugees are protected until they can safely return home one day.”

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