“Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading Winter Arguments is like seeing a landscape or, better, a richly realized painting of a landscape dotted with figures. But that would leave out their music, which would be a loss. This is a wise and graceful book by a well-traveled woman who knows how to confront deep feeling and frame it to make it all the more intense.” KnowsWorldHumansWellsBookFeelingsWould BeEyeReadingNaturalLossKnow HowWiseSeeingFiguresPaintingArgumentWinterIntenseLandscapeSensitiveTraveledNatural WorldLyricalDeep Feeling Author:Rosellen Brown
“In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.” ThinkingWorldArtDoneReligiousLossDealsModernPaintingReturnEternalLosingDamageCustomsOur WorldSecularModern Art Author:Antoni Tapies
“Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.” MayMatterHappensJoyLossPaintingFailureReconcileBegin Again Author:Joshua L. Goldberg
“the most deeply moving element in the contemplation of beauty is the element of loss. We desire to hold; but the sunset melts into the night, and the secret of the painting on the wall can never be the secret of the buyer.” MovingDesireNightLossSecretBeautyPaintingWallElementsLongingContemplationSunsetBuyers Book:Catherine Carter: A Novel Source: Catherine Carter: A Novel
“What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.” MightWould BeLossPaintingAbsence Book:The Shape of a Pocket Source: The Shape of a Pocket
“It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one Cambodian'. Specific books, perhaps; but as far as one can tell, no paintings or sculptures. The difference between us and the artists of the 1920's is that they they thought such a work of art could be made. Perhaps it was a certain naivete that made them think so. But it is certainly our loss that we cannot.” ThinkingArtMadeBookHardArtistCertainDifferencesLossPaintingJewSavedWorks Of ArtSculptureVietnameseNaivete Author:Robert Hughes