“The very name Impressionism is taken from an Atlantic Ocean painting - that of Monet, of sunrise in the harbor of Le Havre, done in 1872.”
“but the Atlantic Ocean is deep and wide and money doesn't hurry from the other side.”
“The gap between most people’s capacity to conjure beauty from scratch and to merely recognize it when they see it is the width of the Atlantic Ocean.”
“Elementary school children are very impressionable”
“Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.”
“I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.”