New Zealand Art Quotes

#1. My main goal is to tell a story.

Stephen Sondheim

#2. As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

Harriet Walter

#3. The art stream is filled with snags and has no volume so it has no support. If you finally choose art, no amount of reason or common sense can discourage you. You must selfishly carry on.

Theresa Sjoquist

#4. I may be a twin, but I am one of a kind.

Jerry Smith

#5. Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

Amy Lowell

#6. 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

#7. I am a big outliner. For my adult book, 'The Visibles,' I did not outline, and it took me two years to write because I just didn't outline, and I had no path.

Sara Shepard

#8. I've had investigations of my lab because people didn't like what I had to say. And when you have investigations and you're doing research, you're shut down for a while. You have to start all over again. So that's one area where I paid a high price.

Carl Hart

#9. Knowledge is addictive. Keep it up.

Theresa Sjoquist

#10. It's not so much where I want you,Sophie, as it is how. Nothing tastes quite like a woman, and no woman tastes like you. - Marc Hunter

Pamela Clare

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

Francis Atterbury

#14. 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

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

Theresa Sjoquist

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

Theresa Sjoquist