“My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.” LittlesUseLeftColorPaintingFinishedTinyBrushesMatisseRenoir Book:Past tense: diaries Source: Past tense: diaries
“What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.” KnowsLifeLife IsLeftTerribleFinishedPhasesCommonplace Book:The Golden Notebook Source: The Golden Notebook
“All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.” StatesLeftComedyTragedyFinished Author:Robert Byron
“I had a terrible fight with my wife on New Year's Eve. She called me a procrastinator. So I finished addressing the Christmas cards and left.” YearsFightingLeftWifeTerribleMy WifeFinishedCardsNew YearNew Years EveLove And MarriageChristmas CardProcrastinator Author:Robert Orben
“The person who takes no chances generally must take whatever is left over after others have finished choosing. Overcaution is as bad, if not worse, than lack of caution. Both should be avoided. Life will always contain an element of chance. Not to win is not a sin. But not to try is a tragedy.” IfsShouldTryingPersonsWinningLeftChanceSinRiskElementsTragedyFinishedCautionAvoided Book:The power of money dynamics Source: The power of money dynamics
“You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and it was left unfinished and somebody else finished it. But through radio carbon dating we know that the next one completed the painting 5,000 years later. You're just blown away by the notion of passage of time. We have no relationship to that kind of depth of time.” KnowsWayYearsKindNextLeftPaintingDatingDepthNotionRadioFinishedPassagesCarbonAbyssUnfinishedThe Next OnePassage Of TimeUnfathomableBlown AwayCharcoal Author:Werner Herzog
“I've never not finished a masturbatory session or a pizza. Those are the two things I've never left behind.” TwoHumorFunnyLeftBehindsFinishedTwo ThingsLeft BehindSessionPizza Author:Adam Carolla