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“By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet of thick fiberboard. It's big enough to hold a table easel, my big palette and a water container. Winter is not going to lock me indoors!”

Enough Bigs Water Car Tables Winter Setting Opening Settings Seats Thick Locks Sheets Gloves Passengers Palette Containers Passenger Seat

Author:Elizabeth Janeway

“Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?”

Water Nature Lines Written Wind Rivers Sheets Publish Sheet Music

Author:John Muir

“Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and in-between- the-sheets, holy-water death.”

Dies Water Holy Let Me Clean Sheets Holy Water

Author:Roger McGough

“Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.”

May Whole School Water Fire Sea Cold Ocean Wave Fishes Surface Autumn Metals Sheets Here And There Schools Of Fish

Book:The Sea Around Us

Source: The Sea Around Us

“Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.”

Ifs Want Wells May States Enough Form Fall Next Water Lines Example Color Paper Accidents Drawing Shops Good Enough Wet Canvas Provoking Brushes Sheets Flowing Water

Author:Joan Miro

“There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.”

Source: Art: Conversations with Paul Gsell