“Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice-- not enough money, not enough love--pity for all of us--it is our grace, walking down the ramp or on the moving sidewalk, sitting in a chair, reading the paper, pity, turning a leaf to the light, arranging a thorn.” EnoughLightMovingReadingVoiceGraceWalkingPaperSittingPityThis LifeMeatChairsLeafsWormsPencilsShakingSidewalkArrangingRampEnough LoveSitting In A Chair Author:Jane Austen
“Because watercolor actually moves on the paper, it is the most active of all mediums, almost a performance art.” ArtMovingPaperPerformancesActiveMediumsPerformance ArtWatercolors Author:Nita Engle
“I confess to a rare problem - gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me - but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves. It is, as any traveller can confirm, a complaint best developed in the affluent North American, and it seems to be part of blue toilet dyes, air fresheners, lots of paper tissues, and two showers a day.” TwoProblemSeemsMovingFallAirPaperBlueIllnessShowersComplaintsToiletsTravellerTissuesPermacultureAffluent Author:Bill Mollison
“Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind ... To move among this bright, strange, often fabulous herd of beings, to summon them at my will, to fasten them on to paper like flies, that they may decorate it, this is the pleasure of writing.” WritingMindMayMovingPleasureStrangePaperEmptyCrowdsFabulousHerdsOf My MindCorridors Book:Personal Pleasures Source: Personal Pleasures
“Learn how to draw. It's the basis of what we [animation directors] do. Keep a sketchbook. Try making a very simple little film. Try and tell a story clearly and entertainingly. Study the way people move and animate move. Observe all you can, and try and capture that simply in a few lines on paper.” PeopleWayTryingLittlesStoriesFilmMovingLinesSimpleStudyDirectorsPaperDrawsBasesCaptureAnimationSketchbooks Author:John Musker