Arts Biography Quotes

#1. In my small way I became an integral part of the pottery movement, and added fuel to the fire which consumed New Zealand and and swept pottery to the forefront of the of the fifties and sixties.

Theresa Sjoquist

#2. I decided I had to find out if it was my scene or not. So I stepped in at the deep end. It leads you to survive or drown. Very often you survive.

Theresa Sjoquist

#3. No-one has the right to terminate a person's life with a gun, a knife, or a makutu (spell).

Theresa Sjoquist

#4. When will the human race choose wisely? All know it is just as eventful, if not more so, when the young seek adventure, purpose, and dreams; instead of blaming everyone but themselves if they choose otherwise

Theresa Sjoquist

#5. She was an autocrat, didn't really believe in democracy. The benefit of her approach was that, if you work with twenty people and ask everybody's opinion, you would never achieve what she did.

Theresa Sjoquist

#6. Biography is the falsest of the arts.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. It was hard to get jobs on farms doing wool-classing, but I got them. They had to learn to like a female wool-classer.

Theresa Sjoquist

#8. Later in life the force of abstinence was to really be understood and my parent's problems became very clear. When will man appreciate his pleasures and respect them enough to indulge in moderation?

Theresa Sjoquist