Unprocessed Linen Quotes & Sayings

Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the canvas. Paint is a cast made of the painter's movements, a portrait of the painter's body and thoughts. — James Elkins

Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that convey factual information - facts, more than just the surfaces of things. — Jonathan Lethem

We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves. — Pope Francis

I could tell the officer all of this because it was the truth. All of this happened in the house at some stage. Should it matter when it happened? — Sarah Schmidt

Love was actions more than words. And not just easy actions like hugs and kisses. It was hard ones, like sticking by someone in bad times, not just in good. It was working for them, even when you were tired. It was putting their needs first, even before your own. It was taking care of them when they were sick. It was forgiving them when they disappointed you. It was protecting them and teaching them. — Gayle Rosengren

Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you'll ever do. — Elizabeth George

Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature. — Jonathan Swift