Elstir Painting Quotes & Sayings

Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances. — Jane Jacobs

While Elstir, at my request, went on painting, I wandered about in the half-light, stopping to examine first one picture, then another.
Most of those that covered the walls were not what I should chiefly have liked to see of his work, paintings in what an English art journal which lay about on the reading-room table in the Grand Hotel called his first and second manners, the mythological manner and the manner in which he shewed signs of Japanese influence, both admirably exemplified, the article said, in the collection of Mme. de Guermantes. Naturally enough, what he had in his studio were almost all seascapes done here, at Balbec. But I was able to discern from these that the charm of each of them lay in a sort of metamorphosis of the things represented in it, analogous to what in poetry we call metaphor, and that, if God the Father had created things by naming them, it was by taking away their names or giving them other names that Elstir created them anew. — Marcel Proust

You know I don't care if it's you know an intern or a full-time employee. I want to help them arrive at who they are or who they want to be in the world and that is one of the questions I ask them when I meet them. You know, who do they want to be. — Carol Friedman

I'm sure loving you to death is just an expression, but those people might actually find a way to do it... — Lisa Terry

If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it be intolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it be heavy, murmur not. After the cross is the crown. — Francis Quarles

Life is rich and full here ... everywhere ... if we can only learn how to open our whole hearts to its richness and fullness. — L.M. Montgomery

You must give permission for people to alter your thoughts. No matter how hard they knock, they can't get into your brain unless you open the door. — Toni Sorenson

Nothing can compare with the time spent with God — Sunday Adelaja

I watched her walk away and thought that if anybody could make a fighting suit look sexy, it'd be Sean. But even she couldn't. — Joe Haldeman

Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning, — Bret Easton Ellis

You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime? — Tabitha Suzuma

Nor did these society people add to Elstir's work in their mind's eye that temporal perspective which enabled them to like, or at least to look without discomfort at, Chardin's painting. And yet the older among them might have reminded themselves that in the course of their lives they had gradually seen, as the years bore them away from it, the unbridgeable gulf between what they considered a masterpiece by Ingres and what they had supposed must forever remain a "horror" (Manet's Olympia, for example) shrink until the two canvases seemed like twins. But we never learn, because we lack the wisdom to work backwards from the particular to the general, and imagine ourselves always to be faced with an experience which has no precedents in the past. — Marcel Proust

The way to meditate is by not trying to be too good at it too quickly. This is essential, because otherwise you won't have any fun with it. — Frederick Lenz