West Branch Feather

Famous quotes containing the words west, branch and/or feather:

    Where there’s more of singing and less of sighing,
    Where there’s more of giving and less of buying,
    And a man makes friends without half trying
    That’s where the West begins.
    Arthur Chapman (1873–1935)

    When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it—a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand—as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there’s a clash between the two, it is bad art.
    Marc Chagall (1889–1985)

    Who blows death’s feather? What glory is colour?
    I blow the stammel feather in the vein.
    The loin is glory in a working pallor.
    My clay unsuckled and my salt unborn,
    The secret child, I shift about the sea
    Dry in the half-tracked thigh.
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)