Great book ideas from another librarian's blog
Yfiction: Inside young adult fiction
While surfing tonight I stumbled on several librarian links to great books. Here is a blog with lots of interesting sidebars and directions to hot books.
PURLS OF WISDOM
"Color is the real substance for me, the real underlying thing which drawing and line are not."
--Sam Francis
"The great man is one who never loses his child's heart."
-- Philosopher Mencius
"We wear our attitudes in our bodies."
-- Patti Davis
Colour embodies an enormous though unexplored power which can effect the entire human body as physical organism.
Colour is a means of exercising direct influence upon the soul.
--V. Kandinsky
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.. things I had no words for.
--Georgia O'Keeffe
Nothing is really work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
--J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Faith is like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
--E. L. Doctorow
Somebody once said that people become artists
because they have a certain kind of energy to release, and that rings true to me.
--Dale Chihuly
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