Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Quotes

• Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.

  Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

  Art, Should

  Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”

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• The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.

  Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

  Art, Eye, Color

  Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”

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• But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss.

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  Time, Loss, Accepting

  Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”

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• Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person who calls himself merciful, or just, or kindly. Usually these are the most cruel, niggardly and selfish people, and slaves learn to fear the master who prefaces his remarks with tributes to his own virtues.

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  Selfish, People, Hypocrisy

  Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (1999). “I, Juan De Pareja”, Turtleback Books

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• And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?

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  Dark, Two, Hands

  Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (1999). “I, Juan De Pareja”, Turtleback Books

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• I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.

  Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

  Goes On, Slippery Slope, Intrigue

  Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”

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• Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.

  Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

  Reading, Joy, Topics

  Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (1977). “The hearthstone of my heart”, Doubleday Books

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