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.
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.
- 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. - 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.
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…
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 …
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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