There is also something exciting about the risk. Somewhere in me is a sadist that likes pain, I guess.
A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.
An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.
Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. Store up in the mind. . . a continuous stream of observations from which to make selections later. Above all things get abroad, see the sunlight and everything that is to be seen.
I do not judge, I only chronicle.
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
Sad news- Prince is gone. Music has lost a great presence. A world less funky. I don't believe in it.
There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.
By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society. ". . . Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for egoism , and it found its way at once into everyone's mouth, although it is utterly devoid of meaning, since it points to nothing that ever existed in mankind; This hybrid or rather this degenerate form of hedonism served powerfully to invest collectivism 's principles with a specious moral sanction, and collectivists naturally made the most of it.
I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.