But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss. — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Accepting Copy Share Image
“He accorded his art the highest respect, that of never taking it for granted. Always, as long as he lived, he tried… — Elizabeth Borton De Trevino Art Copy Share Image
And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds? — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Bird Copy Share Image
Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty. — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Art Copy Share Image
I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had… — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Goes on Copy Share Image
Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person… — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Age Copy Share Image
Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family. — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Chiefs Copy Share Image
The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on… — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Art Copy Share Image