Two Days Off Week 29 2023

It has been a while since a double day off and these two did involve getting sermon prep started for Wednesday and Sunday and a church zoom meeting on the second evening. However, I was able to devote a good chunk of my time to reading Volume 4 and 6 of Beddome's sermons. I am trying to make sure I've read them all. Four volumes are online but the other foour are not. I was up in Oxford recently to read Volume 5 and half of 8. I hope to get up there soon to do Volume 7 and the other half of 8. Back here I went up to the Evangelical Library to read Volume 6, which they have, and then read Volume 4 online the next day. I also read one of my art books, one on Chagall, on the Tuesday and dipped into other books on the Monday. Watched University Challenge on Monday evening, of course, (programme 2 of the season) with its new presenter and the end of a fact based drama about a horrible double murder case. I also found time to work on a project I have planned for my sister's next birthday.

10 Quotes on art by well known artists

1. The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery

Francis Bacon

2. A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art

Paul Cezanne

3. Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Georges Braque

4. Great art picks up where nature ends.

Marc Chagall

5. Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it./ Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Salvador Dali

6. Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Edgar Degas

7. The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

Lucian Freud

8. If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

Edward Hopper

9. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

10. Painting is the most beautiful of lies

Kees van Dongen