Famous quotes containing the words life and/or paintings:
“Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artistthe only thing hes good foris to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. Even if its only his view of a meaning. Thats what hes forto give his view of life.”
—Katherine Anne Porter (18901980)
“When I began to have a fire at evening, before I plastered my house, the chimney carried smoke particularly well, because of the numerous chinks between the boards.... Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters? These forms are more agreeable to the fancy and imagination than fresco paintings or other the most expensive furniture.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)