Barb Brown

“Abiding happiness and peace are theirs who choose this study for its own sake, without expectation of any reward,”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes,”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“the daily fabric of a life was? I mean, when the time comes that we care. The Puritanism of my ancestors has not made use of conversation as a source of pleasure,”
― Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton

“Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? How aware of variations in heat waves can that eye be? Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of color. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.”
― Stan Brakhage, Metaphors on Vision