Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color. Alexander Eliot More Quotes by Alexander Eliot More Quotes From Alexander Eliot We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive. Alexander Eliot home adventure people I have but one life to give to adventure. Alexander Eliot adventure giving Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek. Alexander Eliot journey spiritual answers This moment, this being, is the thing. My life is all life in little. The moon, the planets, pass around my heart. The sun, now hidden by the round bulk of this earth, shines into me, and in me as well. The gods and the angels both good and bad are like the hairs of my own head, seemingly numberless, and growing from within. I people the cosmos from myself, it seems, yet what am I? A puff of dust, or a brief coughing spell, with emptiness and silence to follow. Alexander Eliot angel moon heart So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge. Alexander Eliot restoration brain art Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms, giving edge and essence to things. To see shapes clearly, one outlines them--whether on paper or in the mind. Therefore, Michelangelo, a profoundly cultivated man, called drawing the basis of all knowledge whatsoever. Alexander Eliot color men hands
