"You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous."

-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#Thinking Quotes #Ends Quotes #Painter Quotes

“My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particular views. He was an overwhelming personality but open-minded and liberal.”
“I have a way of finding what is true for me, and itâ€™s not finished yet.”
“Being "brave" means doing or facing something frightening. ... Being "fearless" means being without fear.”
“As I recognized the beauty of the earth, I knew that my Heavenly Father loved me.”
“What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibi lity of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes...”

Source : "Joy Williams, The Art of Fiction No. 223". Interview with Paul Winner, www.theparisreview.org. 2014.
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”

Source : Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.”
“Remarriage is or is not approved in shastra; I have no authority to speak on this subject. But I surely cannot go on without saying this much, that remarriage has helped a great deal in stopping crime in Fiji.”

Source : Totaram Sanadhya, John Dunham Kelly, Uttra Kumari Singh (1991). “My twenty-one years in the Fiji Islands ; and, The story of the haunted line”

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