For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
It's impossible to just localize your perceptions - because the stimuli come from both eyes.
Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.
I choose color on the spur of the moment. People ask me why I paint in red. I do not have the slightest idea. I was painting in blue, then I had a need to paint in red. To be able to interact with the medium, this is the key. There are no sure ways to do art.
Seeing is looking at something in saturation. But we tend to look at something for, say, 130 of a second.
The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.
With monochrome painting. . . the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.
Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God.
There is scarcely a technical issue for which you cannot find expert witnesses of differing opinions.
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.