Quotes About John Olsen

#1. For Guy Davenport--whom he told me John Barth once called the last modernist--modernism is 'a renaissance of the archaic'.

Lance Olsen

#2. Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

John Olsen

#3. The most important thing that everyone should bring to the dining experience is a certain generosity of spirit. Just remember that there are two kinds of people: lovers and others. And you know what you can do with the others.

John Olsen

#4. I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.

John Olsen

#5. What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink.

John Olsen

#6. I guess you could say I'm allergic to sunlight. If I'm exposed to it, it could kill me.

Lee Thompson

#7. If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high.

Charles R. Swindoll

#8. Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy.

Le Corbusier

#9. I'm dedicated to touring the rest of my life.

Dick Dale

#10. The important thing about Paris is not so much that one sees exciting work, but one meets people who feel that art is worth living completely for. This whole atmosphere is very good for work.

John Olsen

#11. Art is not so much talent as character ... it's what you are, the qualities of the person.

John Olsen

#12. Really good mountain bikers are lousy judges of trail difficulty. We haven't a clue, we just ride.

John Olsen

#13. I still believe Americas destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting in unity.

John F. Kerry

#14. You have been told what is good and what Yahweh wants of you. Only this, that you live justly, love tenderly, and walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8)

Matthew Kelly

#15. For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.

Steve Carell

#16. Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some."
Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.

Jim Butcher

#17. He wanted a daughter who looked like his wife. His wife had informed him she wanted a son who looked like her husband. God would decide but it was fun arguing about something that meant everything knowing neither of them
really cared which way it went.

Kristen Ashley

#18. I'd tell my mother to, you know, go you-know-what herself and I would go help those children. They're in an orphanage and they've got family! That's sickening. What does John do? Nothing. His kids are in an orphanage... and he does nothing.
~ Michelle Jarvis

Gregg Olsen

#19. The sharp thrill of seeing them [killdeer birds] reminded me of childhood happiness, gifts under the Christmas tree, perhaps, a kind of euphoria we adults manage to shut out most of the time. This is why I bird-watch, to recapture what it's like to live in this moment, right now.

Lynn Thomson

#20. Women are great. When they dig you, there's nothing they won't do. That kind of loyalty is hard to find - unless you've got a good dog.

David Lee Roth