Jane Urquhart Quotes

#1. What do you do with everything that is cut away? she asked Tilman, thinking now about the negative space of stone sculpture, the stone that is discarded, thinking too about how she had thrown away huge pieces of her own early life ...

Jane Urquhart

#2. My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Billy Graham

#3. The women of this family leaned towards extremes.

Jane Urquhart

#4. Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is you are longing for.

Jane Urquhart

#5. Culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.

Elisabeth Bronfen

#6. Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

Jane Urquhart

#7. Any work of art," said her grandfather,"must achieve sainthood before we set it free to roam in the world.

Jane Urquhart

#8. They represent the most dangerous kind of shape changers: those who cannot see, because of darkness beyond the gesture of the moment

Jane Urquhart

#9. Meak's World is the world I created when I was 12, when I got into the industry. I said, 'I have to do it myself. It's not going to be given to me. It has to be Meak's World.'

Shameik Moore

#10. Someday," Joseph said to his granddaughter, "someday something will happen and you will want to go back to the carving. You won't be able to prevent yourself; that's just the way it is. The world always somehow takes us back to the chisel. Something happens and we have to respond.

Jane Urquhart

#11. Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.

Jane Urquhart

#12. Hardly anybody," he said, "understands how essential shit is to holding things together.

Jane Urquhart

#13. Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another

Jane Urquhart

#14. And the odd thing was, she was beautiful then. It was her awakening, her ... recovery that made her beautiful. After that she just shone.

Jane Urquhart

#15. Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Oliver Goldsmith

#16. Do not quarrel ... with your lot in life. Do not complain of its never-ceasing cares, its petty environment, the vexations you have to stand, the small and sordid souls you have to live and work with.

William Henry Drummond

#17. The lake was a shield of beaten brass flung down in the valley under a full sun.

Jane Urquhart

#18. I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense, but just enough to be careless.
"For God's sake," I said, "yes, don't you?"
"Oh, how charmingly you get angry," he said. "I wish I had that faculty.

Ernest Hemingway,

#19. I don't know what I mean, but I know I believe it.

Jane Urquhart

#20. This was the way it was going to be then, this road she was going to have to walk. She would always be thinking of him so that he would be beside her even when he wasn't there, making her joyous or miserable, but always, always controlling the colour of her days.

Jane Urquhart

#21. Ignorance is bliss, unless you're the on being ignored.

Barnabas Smith