Ian Sidaway Fine Line

 "If you are not interested in your own country's problems, then what difference remains between you and a cow eating grass in a quiet corner unaware of anything around itself." (Mehmet Murat ...

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"The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo the other milk."  (Ogden Nash) "Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger." (Lady Gaga)

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"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." (Virginia Woolf)   "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask whats for lunch." (Or...

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 "It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many million faces, there should be non alike." (Thomas Browne) "The trees show definitions of themselves subtly like the faces of man...

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 "You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul." (Max Ehrmann) "You know me, I think there s...

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 Thank you for visiting the Fine Line and the Studio Blog, in what has been a remarkable and difficult year for us all. I hope that you all have as good a Christmas  as possible and that 2021 b...

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 "I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion." (Henry David Thoreau) "No spring or summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen ...

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"When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety." (Mayer Angelou) "Love the trees unti...

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"Who else goes to the woods to find peace only to discover themselves in the process? I find forests uncluttered the mind with each breath the trees afford me." (Michael Poeltl) ...

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"A pious and proud minded cleric, with a great taste for good Virginia tobacco and a glass of something hot as for the penning of long sermons which sent everyone to sleep on Sundays." (Russel...

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"Draw Lines. Draw lots of Lines." ( Ingres) "The process of drawing is, before all else, the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual though...

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"I have no secret but hard work. This is the secret that many never learn, and they don't succeed because they don't learn it. Labour is the genius that changes the world from ugliness to beauty...

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"I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve." (George Bernard Shaw) It might have been the lighthouse spark Some ...

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He took some of the seed of your land and put it in fertile soil. He planted it like a willow by abundant water. (Ezekiel 17:5) We Say of the oak. How grand of Girth! Of the willow we...

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"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there is an invincible summer." (Albert Camus) "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's learning about dancing in...

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" Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labour of man. When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers , therefore are the founders of civilisation."  ...

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"The only thing I know is that if I get to the studio, that means I am alive today." (Robert Farber) "Never Apologise for your Studio." (Denise Bezanson)

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"If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed- like chickens' like turkeys, like deer, like canada geese." (Ted Nugent) " If you feel the urge, don't...

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"Trees're always a relief after people." (David Mitchell) "How humans love to plunder the forest, like spoiled children with their parents ATM card and no concept of moderation...

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"Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years." (Unknown) "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in." (Greek Prove...

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"There are no bad drawings. Drawings are experiences. The more you draw, the more experienced you'll get." (Danny Gregory) "To spend time observing,without drawing, thinking, without d...

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Thank you for following Ian Sidaway Fine Line and Ian Sidaway Studio and for your kind comments. I hope that you have a good Christmas and that 2020 brings all the good things that you wish for....

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"I bless heaven, morning, noon, and night that I am in my peaceful house in old Twick." (Louis Philippe. Duc d'Orleans) "Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad ?" (Dod...

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"All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow." (Grant Wood) "I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and y...

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"Some counties vaunt themselves in pies and some in meats excel; For turnips of enormous size fair Norfolk bares the belle." (Old Rhyme) "If this were the time or the pla...

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