Amy

“The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.”
― Edgar Degas

“Isn’t it curious how in so many of our pastimes and hobbies we play at supplying one or another of our fundamentally creauturely needs—for food, shelter, even clothing?”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“Only the painter who knows his business can create the impression that a picture was done in one stroke.”
― Auguste Renoir

“Mrs. Lynde was complaining the other day that it wasn't much of a world. She said whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection: 11 Books