Promenading Painting Quotes & Sayings

As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic impression. Art is a human activity- that one man consciously by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are touched by these feelings and also experience them. — Leo Tolstoy

It was so impossible to live life backward. — Maggie Stiefvater

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind. — Anna Brownell Jameson

If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them. — Alexis De Tocqueville

This is still a lot of blocking and tackling. I'm not seeing the kind of vision thing associated with a frothy market. — Jermichael Finley