Wisdom on Wednesdays—Count that day lost

Still Life, oil on hardboard, 10 x 12 in.

“Count that day lost on which you have not done something useless.”  (1966)

Wisdom on Wednesdays—A minority of one

“Wisdom, being always in a minority of one, usually has no chance whatever where majorities rule.”  (1939)

Wisdom on Wednesdays—The media of wisdom

Gertrude Peeling Apples, c. 1925, pastel on dark brown paper, 10⅞ x 8½ in.

“Knowledge is not an end, any more than perseverance. They are the media of wisdom. In like manner, love and labor are media for the end, counsel–or understanding in the heart.”  (April 1932)

Wisdom on Wednesdays—We are the middle

Floating Flower Market, Spalato, 1916, oil on canvas, 15 x 18 in.
A painting based on sketches done during the artist’s visit to Spalato (Split, Croatia) in 1914.

“We have forgotten the ends. We are the middle, and media are rapidly becoming our sole concern through choice with some, through habit with many more, and as a result through necessity with most of us.
—from the essay “The Sense of Origins” (1930)

Wisdom on Wednesdays—The only escape from respectability

St. Francis, etching, January 1926

“St. Francis leads us to the only escape from respectability—Poverty.”  (1931)