
“Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.”
Source: Angels & Demons
“Time is the brush of God, as he paints his masterpiece on the heart of humanity.”
“A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
Addressing an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times (11 May 1967); often this is quoted without the humorous final sentence.
Context: A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence.
Quotes, 1960 - 1970
Source: LIFE http://books.google.com/books?id=XUoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49, Vol. 64, nr. 3, 19 January 1968, p. 49
Source: A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912), Chapter IV, Improved Legal Procedure, p. 39
quote c. 1959, in 'Preface to Stripe Painting', by Carl Andre, in Sixteen Americans ed. Miller, p. 76
Andre's remark is referring to Andre's close artist-friend Frank Stella, the American minimalist painter
Propositions, 2
1870 - 1903, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies' (1890)
Source: 1930s, The conflict between Aristotelian and Galileian modes of thought in contemporary psychology, 1931, p. 147.
"The Flower Lady" http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/ochs/lyrics/flower-lady.html
Pleasures of the Harbor (1967)