Quotes for All
Most of my library consists of books on the Catholic faith: conversion stories, books on saints and Early Church Fathers, Apparitions of Mary, prayer books, Scriptural resource books on Apologetics, Typology, concordances, bible dictionaries, bible encyclopedias and at least 40 bibles – both Catholic and Protestant editions in several different translations. Gail Buckley
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough. Ezra Pound
It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance. Emile Chartier
Ghosts Take shape under moonlight, materialize in dreams. Shadows. Silhouettes of what is no more. But ghosts don’t bother me. The day brings bigger things to worry about than flimsy remains of yesterday. No, spooks don’t scare me. Gauzy apparitions might prank your psyche or agitate your nightmares, but lacking flesh and blood they are … Read more
It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,–a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
White is the color of decomposition. White is also no color. White is nothing. In photography, the paper is white, next comes the light, which is also white, then the shadow is created, the apparition. Dieter Appelt
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away—an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot … Read more
…it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of … Read more
we’ll have to reclaim the ward ‘taxes.’ Why has it become a synonym for ‘evil’? I understand that no one likes to pay good money for nothing. But fire and police protection aren’t nothing. … Roads, bridges, airports, and mass transit systems aren’t nothing. National parks, clean air, and clear water aren’t nothing. A safe … Read more
Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of ‘the flying white’, of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush.. ..there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the … Read more