On the contrary, art consists of inventing and not copying. The Italian Renaissance is a period of artistic decadence. Those men, devoid of their predecessors' inventiveness, thought they were stronger as imitators-that is false. Art must be free in its inventiveness, it must raise us above too much reality. This is its goal, whether it is poetry or painting. The plastic life, the picture, is made up of harmonious relationships among volumes, lines, and colors. These are the three forces that must govern works of art. If, in organizing these three essential elements harmoniously, one finds that objects, elements of reality, can enter into the composition, it may be better and may give the work more richness. But they must be subordinated to the three essential elements mentioned above. Modern work thus takes a point of view directly opposed to academic work. Academic work puts the subject first and relegates pictorial values to a secondary level, if there is room.For us others, it is the opposite. Every canvas, even if nonrepresentational, that depends on harmonious relationships of the three forces-color, volume, and line-is a work of art. I repeat, if the object can be included without shattering the governing structure, the canvas is enriched.Sometimes these relationships are merely decorative when they are abstract. But if objects figure in the composition-free objects with a genuine plastic value-pictures result that have as much variety and profundity as any with an imitative subject.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.

Jane Austen

Yes, the experience of all stages of life are valuable, not just of youth.

Daniel Petrie

Of all that Orient lands can vaunt, of marvels with our own competing, the strangest is the Haschish plant, and what will follow on its eating.

John Greenleaf Whittier

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Plutarch

Ghandi's seven sins:<br/>Wealth without work<br/>Pleasure without conscience<br/>Knowledge without character<br/>Commerce without morality<br/>Science without humility<br/>Worship without sacrifice<br/>Politics without principle

Mahatma Gandhi

I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world look after me.

Princess of Wales Diana

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Karl Von Clausewitz

Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may be especially true for seniors, as the ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin declines with age.

Andrew Weil

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Under loves heavy burden do I sink.--Romeo

William Shakespeare

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

David Brinkley

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

John Green