"Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint is a finely tuned antenna, reacting to very unnoticed movement of the painter's hand, fixing the faintest shadow of a thought in color and texture."

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Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.193, Routledge

James Elkins

#Art Quotes #Hands Quotes #Color Quotes

“Starting is easy. Finishing is hard.”

Source : "Driving Into A New Venture: Insights From A Serial Entrepreneur". Interview with J. Kelly Hoey, medium.com. June 14, 2016.
“My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?”
“It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.”
“I've had so many people tell me that they are shocked that AM radio still even exists with all the different listening options.”
“Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender”
“The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.”

Source : Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons
“In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.”
“One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.”

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