secret about a secret
Helen Cooper photographer
To be able to say how much love, is love but little. Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren’t open that early.
Unless we remember we cannot understand. In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we’ll find it.
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature’s greatest healers.
There’s something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
Vision is the true creative rhythm.
You can’t do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
There’s no night without stars. Nature is the art of God. Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
I don’t deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
There’s something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.