"Artists are here to disturb the peace."

-- James A. Baldwin

“Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and, as to the whole, the arrangement of the proportion with a view to a symmetrical result.”
“I want Thailand to be a peaceful country.”
“We often think of great faith as something that happens spontaneously so that we can be used for a miracle or healing. However, the greatest faith of all, and the most effective, is to live day by day trusting Him. It is trusting Him so much that we look at every problem as an opportunity to see His work in our life.”

Source : Rick Joyner (2011). “Wisdom From Rick Joyner”, p.83, Destiny Image Publishers
“Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or abstract element. These threads are interdependent and complementary, and if one set is lacking the fabric does not exist. A picture with no representational purpose is to my mind always an incomplete technical exercise, for the only purpose of any picture is to achieve representation.”

Source : "On the Possibilities of Painting". Lecture, Sorbonne, May 15, 1924.
“To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.”
“When everyone's focused on the conventional parts of war - doing infantry imbeds or chasing IEDs - you look at the thing that seems not that interesting to people, like the circumstances of logistics workers cooking the troops' food or cleaning their latrines.”
“God be thanked for that good and perfect gift, the gift unspeakable: His life, His love, His very self in Jesus Christ.”
“The impression is that love is something that happens to you like magic. That love is something others do for you, but that you cannot do for yourself. Love is not something you wait for. Love doesn't just happen. Love is something you do. When you want love, give love. Moment to moment, you make the choice whether to give love and be loved.”

Source : Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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