I don't think painters have the answers about a painting except the painting itself. Anyway, a painting has to have some kind of mystery to it to make it work.
Elizabeth KostovaIt's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over whenever they occurred. (Our teachers deplored this and added extra units about social history and protest movements, but that was still the message of the books.)
Elizabeth KostovaThen draw everything. Do a hundred drawings a day,' he said fiercely. 'And remember that it's a hellish life.
Elizabeth KostovaI remembered some of what I'd read in the past: the small group of the original Impressionists, including one woman-Berthe Morisot- who'd first banded together in 1874 to exhibit works in a style that the Paris Salon found too experimental for inclusion. We postmoderns take them for granted, or disdain them, or love them too easily.
Elizabeth KostovaNot everyone who reaches back into history can survive it.
Elizabeth KostovaHe can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them.
Elizabeth KostovaStichwörter: love
Recently abandoned women can be complicated.
Elizabeth KostovaStichwörter: women abandonment complicated
It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.
Elizabeth KostovaIn those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.
Elizabeth KostovaStichwörter: lonely
Doesn't every love express itself this way, with the seeds of both its flowering and its ruin in the very first words, the first breath, the first though?
Elizabeth KostovaStichwörter: love
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