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“I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.”

Stills Movement Painting Illusion Exciting Tricks Fixed

Author:Cecily Brown

“One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.”

People Thinking Believe Stills Reason Moving I Believe Half Broken Difficulty Affection Fixed Quantity Tides Going Out Allowance Friendship Broken

Author:Freya Stark

“The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.”

Kind Stills Order Process Imagination Struggle Impossible Events Objects Degrees Conscious Former Primaries Operations Fixed Agency Echoes Identical

Book:Biographia Literaria: Top Biography

Source: Biographia Literaria: Top Biography

“I am not dead yet! I can still call forth a piece of soul and set it down in color, fixed forever.”

Stills I Can Soul Forever Pieces Color Fixed

Book:The Bone People: A Novel

Source: The Bone People: A Novel

“It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life? To learn the art of remaining motionless amid the agitation of the whirlwind, to learn to remain still and to be as transparent as this fixed light amid the frantic branches this may be a program for life.”

Way May Art Stills Feelings Light Passion Projects Program Guides Fixed Branches Sensations Attributes Transparent Agitation Frantic Whirlwind

Author:Octavio Paz