Top 7 Quotes by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.

Art, Should

Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”

The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.

Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

Art, Eye, Color

Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”

But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss.

Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

Time, Loss, Accepting

Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”

Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person who calls himself merciful, or just, or kindly. Usually these are the most cruel, niggardly and selfish people, and slaves learn to fear the master who prefaces his remarks with tributes to his own virtues.

Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

Selfish, People, Hypocrisy

Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (1999). “I, Juan De Pareja”, Turtleback Books