Tanton Quotes

#1. Mathematics speaks to the transcendental, as does this extraordinary friendship. A beautiful book!

James Tanton

#2. Living in my head isn't fun sometimes. A kajillion thoughts are there at any one time, and the only place I find peace is at the easel.

Janice Tanton

#3. Creatives are feared and ridiculed ... and at the same time highly valued for their ability to see things that others do not.

Janice Tanton

#4. There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it's how to handle your chosen medium and how to best reveal the light in a three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional surface.

Janice Tanton

#5. We meant well, she thought, looking up at a sky piled with cumulus clouds turning amethyst and indigo above the clearing. No one was deliberately evil. We all did the best we could. Even so, what a mess we made of everything ...

Mary Doria Russell

#6. Just trying to live our lives and figuring out how to turn that into art. It's tough to say that the art was premeditated. Instead you just focused on living. 'How do I want to live? What do I want to do?' Then you figured out how to make that into art.

Casey Neistat

#7. I've come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.

John Tanton

#8. Sometimes I misstep into something perhaps I shouldn't, but with age comes a thick, high pair of rubber boots to wade through the barnyard. We should all have to get to the dirt and 'muck out' at some point in our lives.

Janice Tanton

#9. Before pride waves a white flag, it waves all other colors.

Akiane Kramarik

#10. I saw a great bumper sticker that read: 'Do something that scares you every day.' That really stuck with me. I try to live like that.

Janice Tanton

#11. Paradise is, above all, the state in which the soul feels clean.

Ivan Klima

#12. In the bacteriology lab, we have culture plates. You put a bug in there and it starts growing and gets bigger and bigger and bigger. And it grows until it finally fills the whole plate. And it crashes and dies.

John Tanton

#13. You can either buy shoes or paint.

Janice Tanton

#14. WISDOM is man's true strength; and, under its guidance, he best accomplishes the ends of his being.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. If you would listen to every stroke of my brush, I would never need to speak again.

Janice Tanton

#16. It was simply that she was only fully alive when she devoted herself to her singular ability to draw, and when she drew she was naturally always alone.

Tove Jansson

#17. We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a goddamn thing about doing a show.

Jerome Robbins

#18. To forgive is not to forget, but rather to re-member whatever has been dismembered.

Carter Heyward

#19. Do we leave it to individuals to decide that they are the intelligent ones who should have more kids? And more troublesome, what about the less intelligent, who logically should have less? Who is going to break the bad news [to less intelligent individuals], and how will it be implemented?

John Tanton

#20. I care about the human race, and I strive to understand it.

Janice Tanton

#21. I colour for a living. When I am a good artist, the only difference between me and a child is that I am more wrinkled. When I am not being a good artist, the only difference between me and a child is every difference imaginable.

Janice Tanton

#22. One of the toughest guys in the world is Randy Couture - he is the true epitome of what a tough guy is.

Jason Statham

#23. But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

Haruki Murakami

#24. I was in the forest jumping around daffodils while everyone was high on heroin.

Rufus Wainwright