But why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that? And watch him suffer."— Barbara Bush on "
Good Morning America," March 18, 2003
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
4 comments:
Wonder what she thinks now, more than two years later??
her mind is so beautiful, it seems almost a relic.
Naturally, it is easy for her put these worrisome things out of her mind...none of her sons were ever in harm's way.
How easy for her not to have to think about it. Sigh.
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