"The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line."

-- Piet Mondrian

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“There is a very fine line between listening and stalking.”
“Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.”

Source : Howard Pyle, Howard P. Brokaw (1998). “History and Romance: Works by Howard Pyle from the Brokaw Family Collection : the Exhibition, April 4 Through May 17, 1998, Brandywine River Museum, Brandywine Conservancy, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania”
“A party in the orange grove. The pain on Linden's face is immediate. I am unwavering. He has cost me more pain than I will ever be able to repay.”
“I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.”
“No offence to Hugh MacLennan, but you don't even have to know or understand any deep philosophy that's being espoused, you can just have the feeling of those words together, and that you know them and can sing along with that melody with your fist up in the air. It's a wild vehicle for sentiment, because it's so powerful on the musical front.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“When a painting problem crops up, don't rush to fix it. You probably already know one way to fix it, but wait for something else to show up... invite the muses to bring you a new solution.”
“For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the very events we witness about us, each and every day.”
“The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible: that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth.”

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