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by amo
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From My Reading
These two quotations are really one, but I stopped and thought about the first part for a while before I read on to see what followed, so I’m going to break up what is really one paragraph in a book:
“When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject.”
Flowers in a Green Vase
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
“But then I shall require a still gayer palette than I get here below. I expect orange and vermilion will be the darkest, dullest colors upon it, and beyond them there will be a whole range of wonderful new colours which will delight the celestial eye.”
– from Painting as a Pastime
(While I was looking for an appropriate photo of one of his paintings, I came across this story, which I found rather interesting.)
