Jerri Manthey Quotes

#1. All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Jacques Lipchitz

#2. She would always say that people who try to control people and change people's habits are the ones that make all the trouble. If you don't like somebody, walk away, she said, but don't try and make them like you.
Harriet, on what Ole Golly says

Louise Fitzhugh

#3. It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself.

Heinrich Heine

#4. If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves - and often beautiful.

Brenda Peterson

#5. I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.

Mary E. DeMuth

#6. If ideals have such a power over our lives, if they energize and direct our first entry into the world

Frank B. Anderson