Pentimenti Art Quotes & Sayings

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs. — Laura Hillenbrand

In my art history degree course, we did a module on palimpsests - medieval sheets of parchment so costly that, once the text was no longer needed, the sheets were simply scraped clean and reused, leaving the old writing faintly visible through the new. Later, Renaissance artists used the word pentimenti, repentances, to describe mistakes or alterations that were covered with new paint, only to be revealed years or even centuries later as the paint thinned with time, leaving both the original and the revision on view.

Sometimes I have a sense that this house - our relationship in it, with it, with each other - is like a palimpsest or pentimento, that however much we try to overpaint Emma Matthews, she keeps tiptoeing back: a faint image, an enigmatic smile, stealing its way into the corner of the frame. — J.P. Delaney

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth. — Baruch Spinoza

Stop looking back when your future is ahead of you. — Ricky Maye

You need to quickly recognize when and why you're being spooned bullshit. That happens very often, but it happens for a reason. — David Weigel

Autumn arrived and life was in danger of becoming boring again. — Deborah Curtis

Be beautiful and you are doing your part to create a more beautiful world. — Bryant McGill

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius. — Tabatha Coffey