“Brother Francis added a hasty prayer to Saint Raul the Cyclopean, patron of the misborn, for protection against the Saint's unhappy proteges. (For who did not then know that there were monsters in the earth in those days? That which was born alive was, by the law of the Church and the law of Nature, suffered to live, and helped to maturity if possible, by those who had begotten it. The law was not always obeyed, but it was obeyed with sufficient frequency to sustain a scattered population of adult monsters, who often chose the remotest of deserted lands for their wanderings, where they prowled by night around the fires of prairie travelers.)”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
“He had perforce but the vaguest idea of how the older masters understood the working out of those grand constructions in which the plastic movements follow one another in an unbroken and ever varied sequence throughout the whole of the picture-space—constructions which stimulate the imagination to the freest movements”
― Cézanne: A Study of His Development
― Cézanne: A Study of His Development
“You don't need to talk to someone to know them. All you need to do is watch. See how they carry themselves. See how they treat others.”
― Never Smile at Strangers
― Never Smile at Strangers
“Caravaggio was a preternaturally modern artist who was obliged to wait for the world to become as modern as he was.”
― Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles
― Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles
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