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Worth the wait feeling
the significance doesn’t matter. The historical significance deadens it. Across those unbridgeable distances—between bird and painter, painting and viewer—I hear only too well what’s being said to me, a psst from an alleyway as Hobie put it, across four hundred years of time, and it’s really very personal and specific. It’s there in the
... See moreDonna Tartt • The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
It is no more in this way than in that, or in neither.
(Aulus Gellius, via Henricius Stephanus’ 1562 annotated edition of Sextus Empiricus)
lindaraquelita • A Catalog of Montaigne's Beam Inscriptions
Leurs façons de parler sont, ‘Je n'etablis rien: II n'est non plus ainsi qu'ainsin, ou que ny l’un ny l’autre'…
96 chess pieces
The next oil I would like to mention is Walnut Oil again naturally a very clear oil, it dries faster than poppyseed and it is felt to have an excellent refractive index for displaying pigments with the most possible vibrancy, it potentially can hold more pigment than linseed or poppyseed.
supremepaint.co.uk • Artists Oil Paint History
isn’t this one makes cracks in the paint?
Rien de précieux — mais tout, de la chaise au tableau ayant du caractère
I do no longer paint because it's trendy, or it brings me love on social media. But don’t ask me why I do it
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premeditatio malorum
Prepare for life inevitable set backs
- Decide
- Commit
- Execute
- Be Patient
From Andrew Salgado
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