Thomas Couture quotes

Thomas Couture quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.”
-- Thomas Couture

Source : Thomas Couture (1879). “Conversations on Art Methods”

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“Love overcomes hate. Love has no color. Love has no orientation. All is love.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.”
“It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.”
“I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.”

Source : Adolph Gottlieb, Robert M. Doty, Diane Waldman (1968). “Adolph Gottlieb”
“Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.”
“Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing - not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything. If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you. Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.”

Source : Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.139, Sounds True
“The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.”
“We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.”
“What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?”
“You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.”

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