#traces

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#abstract art #always #art #must #reality

I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be ↗

— Sebastian Faulks

#life

Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage. ↗

— Morris West

#creature #experiences #his #man #nightmare

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source. ↗

— Arthur Baer

#pipes #plumber #source #their #traces

You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage. ↗

— Morris West

#caught #cave #creature #experiences #fact

It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#america #found #other #seems #strange

The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#closer #even #foot #gets #great

We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#apprehension #before #days #evident #few

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ↗

— Rene Char

#leave #must #passage #poet #proof

We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#leave #ourselves #touch #traces #whatever