Franklin Carmichael Quotes

#1. It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about his surroundings.

Franklin Carmichael

#2. Oh hours of childhood,
when behind each shape more than the past appeared
and what streamed out before us was not the future.
We felt our bodies growing and were at times impatient to be grown up, half for the sake
of those with nothing left but their grownupness.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#3. If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

Joyce Carol Oates

#4. The first step is to take weapons off the streets and to put more police on them.

Hillary Clinton

#5. All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am.

Bruce Cockburn

#6. A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities ...

Franklin Carmichael

#7. No matter how this turns out, you've already seen the treasure we all search a lifetime for. You've got the whole rest of your life to be grateful for that.

Dan Skinner

#8. The sad irony is that the views of the liberty-first advocates are more likely to lead to socialism or totalitarianism than those of the people they criticize for being socialists.

Howard I. Schwartz