Bowdog

“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”
― Roger Fry, Cézanne: A Study of His Development

“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.)”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“Caravaggio was a preternaturally modern artist who was obliged to wait for the world to become as modern as he was.”
― Francine Prose, Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles – A Biography of the Revolutionary Italian Artist Who Painted Ordinary People

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa