New Zealand Art History Quotes

#1. If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

Rabindranath Tagore

#2. The pa system has broken down. Society has broken down.

Theresa Sjoquist

#3. I know where I am going now with art. I have found myself. Yvonne Rust 1994, aged 72.

Theresa Sjoquist

#4. Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Ira Gershwin

#5. 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

#6. I never set out to create a technique. I started out on the floor to find myself, to find what the body could do, and what would give me satisfaction - emotionally, dramatically and bodily. But I did not ever dream of establishing a technique. I still can't believe anything like that happened.

Martha Graham

#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. Courage is not walking into battle with no fear - you should know this as a soldier. Courage is feeling great fear, but walking forward anyway.
Lady Lavender by Lynna Banning

Lynna Banning

#9. 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

#10. To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world - impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define. The spectator is a prince who everywhere rejoices in his incognito.

Charles Baudelaire

#11. Knowledge is addictive. Keep it up.

Theresa Sjoquist

#12. I often have discussions with people who demand pluralism and much more. One can discuss these issues, but only within the framework of the law.

Nguyen Minh Triet

#13. Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Colin Powell

#14. It's liberating to live at home during the week, but on the weekend it's like, Jesus Christ, how much History Channel can one human being watch?

John Rzeznik

#15. In 1946 there was no money in art, no dealer galleries, no craft shops. After the war we started to teach art in every school for the first time. Our generation played a crucial role. We were the stepping stones towards today's galleries.

Theresa Sjoquist

#16. He looked like an angel.

But only the fallen would make her feel the sudden violent lust rushing through her veins.

Marie Hall

#17. Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

Mason Cooley