Rick Hilles quotes

“A fool does not see the same trees a wise man sees.”
-- Rick Hilles

Source : Rick Hilles (2006). “Brother Salvage”, p.38, University of Pittsburgh Press

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-- Rick Hilles

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“Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.”

“Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.”

“God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.”

“A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.”

“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.”

“Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.46, Courier Corporation

“Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.”

“We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.”

“When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.”

Source : "Agnes Martin: the artist mystic who disappeared into the desert" by Olivia Laing, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2015.

“It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.”