Quote of the day
When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it – a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.
Evagrius Ponticus

Born: 345
Died: 399 (aged 54)
Bio: Evagrius Ponticus, also called Evagrius the Solitary, was a Christian monk and ascetic. One of most influential theologians in the late fourth-century church, he was well known as a thinker, polished speaker, and gifted writer.