Quotes from Deborah Davis

When he was very excited, [John Singer] Sargent would rush at his canvas with his brush poised for attack, yelling, 'Demons, demons, demons!' When he was particularly angry or frustrated, he expressed these feelings with 'Damn,' the only curse he allowed himself. He once had the expletive inscribed on a rubber stamp so he could have the satisfaction of pounding it on a piece of paper.

If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it.

Curiously, anatomical reality in art was apparently a horrifying concept to the same men and women who lined up to see bodies at the morgue.

Corinthians 11, 14, "doth not even nature itself teach you that, if a man wear his hair long, it is a shame unto him?

when they summered in Newport, they embraced the simple life.

Booker T. also made a point of giving lengthy interviews to journalists because newspaper articles were solid forums for his ideas. "Do you think the time might ever come, that any circumstance might ever arise, by which a black man might become president of the United States?" the Memphis Commercial Appeal asked him point-blank in a conversation about the future of the black man in America. "I should hope so," was Booker T.'s reply.

What does the Christian faith say about Mary's childhood. We do not know much of Mary's childhood.