The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.
Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person who calls himself merciful, or jus… - Elizabeth Borton De Trevino
Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person who calls himself merciful, or jus…
- Elizabeth Borton De Trevino
But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss. - Elizabeth Borton De Trevino
But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss.
And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds? - Elizabeth Borton De Trevino
And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?
The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye … - Elizabeth Borton De Trevino
The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye …
I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities. - Elizabeth Borton De Trevino
I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.
Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty. - Elizabeth Borton De Trevino
Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.
Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family. - Elizabeth Borton De Trevino
Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.
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