If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
~ Jalal Al-Din Rumi
If only he could work faster.Yet if he did work faster, how could he produce paintings grounded in deep beds of contemplation, the only way living things could be stilled long enough to understand them?And wasn't everything he painted--a breadbasket, a pitcher, a jewelry box, a copper pan--wasn’t it all living?