"Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge upon each other and splinter and creak, fall with a thud to the bottom of the canvas and drag across the surface, and the next day they are like dust, all lightweight and just stuck there."

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Source : John McEwen, Paula Rego (1992). “Paula Rego”

Paula Rego

#Real Quotes #Fall Quotes #Dust Quotes

“You're my life, Elle. When we have our children, they'll be included in that circle and I'm not a man to lose everything. I want you as safe as possible." "So you don't think three protection dogs, a room filled with weapons, a panic room and house that eats people isn't just a little overkill?”
“I think the best work of the director is to listen to what all the technicians around him have to say, but then the thing is to take the best decision, what you think is the best. Then, that is the moment where you have to have all the film in your head and imagine how all of that will fit together.”
“If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.”
“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”

Source : Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.66, Open Road Media
“We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.”
“Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!”
“Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.”

Source : Lord Dunsany (2015). “The Book of Wonder”, Simon and Schuster
“Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.”

Source : Helen Schucman “A Course in Miracles - Manual For Teachers”, A Course in Miracles

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