"Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?"

-- Alexander McCall Smith

#Paint Quotes #Painter Quotes #Bleak Quotes

“You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.”
“The thing that makes us know that this "latter rain" that is flooding the world with the glory of God is of the Lord, is because the devil is not in such business.”
“The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.”
“We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.”
“Music was the voice I didn't have.”
“To reflect on the essence of the Creator ... is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation between the two existences.”
“many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.”

Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.148
“Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.”

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