"My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms."

-- Howard Hodgkin

#Thinking Quotes #Rooms Quotes #Painter Quotes

“Your painting is a measure of your mind.”
“I was never really that great at sewing, but I had a good idea of what I wanted things to look like.”
“I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.”
“By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.”

Source : Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.10, University of Toronto Press
“Whoever cannot find a temple in his heart, the same can never find his heart in any temple.”

Source : Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.76, Duncan Baird Publishers
“There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it's no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars. They exist in lifestyles.”
“The problem when someone feels burned out, bored, unchallenged, or stifled by their work is not the job itself but rather the environment and playground rules given to them to do the job at hand.”
“Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.”

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