Donald Friedman > Quotes

“The hard part about changing is that you have to change.”
― Donald Friedman, The Hand Before the Eye

“Your dog is the ultimate acolyte; he believes you are the very image of God.”
― Donald Friedman, You're My Dawg, Dog: A Lexicon of Dog Terms for People

“For true repentance there must be change. Remember when it comes-the flash, the insight- that it’s only the beginning.”
― Donald Friedman, The Hand Before the Eye

“The deaf carve poetry out of space with their hands. The blind absorb stories though their fingers. The Greeks grouped poetry with the healing arts of medicine under the aegis of Apollo.”
― Donald Friedman, The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers

“For true repentance there must be change. Remember when it comes-the flash, the insight- that it’s only the beginning.”
― Donald Friedman, The Hand Before the Eye

“Drawing, painting and sculpture partake of the physical world and are sensory, while writing is conceptual. This distinction blurs, however, when one considers that there is pleasure in rhyme, rhythm, and meter, which is musical, somatic, and sensual enough to provoke physical response.”
― Donald Friedman, The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers