Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 18 x 27  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” ―  Henry David Thoreau Living life simply?  Sounds like it Henry David Thoreau! Perhaps the absurdity of materialism? Sometimes being alone is more luxurious than sharing space on a velvet cushion. What do you think about the quote?  Here it is in context:    "It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow. The traveller who stops at the best houses, so called, soon discovers this, for the publicans presume him to

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 White Face  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Cradled Wood Panel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast It is not time for New Years and resolutions... especially the ones we do not keep. But we are able to think about the things we could positiv