This is love.

Together they would rest their backs on the cool grass looking up at the stars. Reminded of how small they were, the pair would lose themselves in the stillness of the night. He exhaled heavily and stretched his arm out to touch hers. She tensed – as she always does – and then relaxed the corners of her lips into a subtle smile.

Art

+ At no time could a work of art have been made or understood by a mind unable to conceive the integrated structure of the whole.

– Rudolf Arnheim.

+ The progression of a painter's work as it travels in time from point to point, will be toward clarity.. toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea.. and the idea and the observer.. To achieve this clarity is inevitably to be understood.

+ It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

-Mark Rothko