#con

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#constant state #grew #house #i #mourning

I have always said that whomever has limited preferences cannot be a critic, for the same reason some guy who only likes blondes cant be a jury in a beauty contest, for his idea of beauty is predefined and not based on dynamic reality. Thus, what people call 'preferences' are in fact exactly what makes them blind. For this reason being a writer also means you essentially cannot have the same markup as ordinary people, because getting rid of the precomposed is a too essential part of the whole dynamics of writing. ↗

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

#critics #beauty

The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#been #conduct #endowed #few #full

Starting and feeding into the cultural war is absolutely unequivocally wrong for us as a nation and bad for the conservative movement. ↗

— Tim Scott

#bad #conservative #conservative movement #cultural #cultural war

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it. ↗

— William Scott

#continuation #every #i #i do #last

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. ↗

— Walter Scott

#centuries #contemporary #diary #document #dull

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion. ↗

— William Scott

#am #concerned #expectation #flat #i

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting. ↗

— William Scott

#charcoal #drawing #drawn #economy #find

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#dead #especially #europeans #experienced #familiar

My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#concern #fighting #followed #highest #highest priority