To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as Maynard Dixon. The great mood of his work is solitude, the effect of land and space on people. While his work stands perfectly well on its claims to beauty, it offers a spiritual view of the West indispensable to anyone who would understand it.
My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw - Thomas Mcguane
My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw
- Thomas Mcguane
The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in. - Thomas Mcguane
The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.
Young anglers love new rivers the way they love the rest of their lives. Time does not seem to be of the essence and somewhere in the system is what … - Thomas Mcguane
Young anglers love new rivers the way they love the rest of their lives. Time does not seem to be of the essence and somewhere in the system is what …
Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous. - Thomas Mcguane
Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.
I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by. - Thomas Mcguane
I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by.
You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered. - Thomas Mcguane
You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.
An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity. - Thomas Mcguane
An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.
I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like this s… - Thomas Mcguane
I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like this s…
I may be the wrong person for my life. - Thomas Mcguane
I may be the wrong person for my life.
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