“If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.” IfsHumansSoulEarthMovingSpiritAnimalWonderTreeFiguresPaintingFlowerDelightPainterHillsLandscapeLimbsFullnessHuman SoulPetalsFigure Painting Book:Works Source: Works
“Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.” SpiritWaterLowsHotRemedyEmployedFrozenLimbsCheerfulnessMirthHot Water Book:Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind Source: Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind
“For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.” SpiritPurposeSexPleasePureShapesEssenceAssumingBonesFleshTiedObscureLimbsJointsEnmityAiryParadise Lost Book 9Paradise Lost Book 1 Author:John Milton