THURSDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing, Self-publishing, and Better Living: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil

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Letter from Renoir to Durand-Ruel, 1889:

The olive tree, what a beast! You can’t imagine how many problems it has caused me. A tree full of color, not too big, and its little leaves, how they’ve made me sweat! A breath of wind, and the whole tree changes its tonality, because the color isn’t in the leaves, but in the space between them. An artist can’t be great unless he understands the landscape.

~TOM MUELLER, author ofExtra Virginity: The Sublime an...