"Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really canâ€™t articulate."

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Susan Rothenberg

#Sight Quotes #Painting Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.”
“Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.”
“I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.”
“I want to lay my kill at your feet.”
“The Indian Bureau system is wrong. The only way to adjust wrong is to abolish it, and the only reform is to let my people go. After freeing the Indian from the shackles of government supervision, what is the Indian going to do: leave that with the Indian, and it is none of your business.”
“Youâ€™ve read the books?â€ â€œIâ€™ve seen the movies.â€ Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) â€œSo you havenâ€™t read the books.â€ â€œIâ€™m not really a book person.â€ â€œThat might be the most idiotic thing youâ€™ve ever said to me”
“Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.”
“A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature really smile. Never does she look so delightful, as when the sun is brightly reflected by the water, while the waves are gently rippling, and the prospect receives life and animation from the glancing transit of an occasional row-boat, and the quieter motion of a few small vessels. But the land must be well in sight; not only for its own sake, but because the immensity and awfulness of a mere sea-view would ill accord with the other parts of the glittering and joyous scene.”

Source : Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.8

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