Yard Art Quotes

#1. I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond

Agnes Martin

#2. Stop focusing on what's wrong with everyone else and start focusing on how blessed you are.

Joyce Meyer

#3. The ceremonial and religious uses of psychedelics are much older than their recreational uses and abuses. For most of their history, they have been mysterious, dangerous substances and must be treated respectfully.

Humphry Osmond

#4. Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery.

Herman Melville

#5. Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet.

Art Linkletter

#6. Novelists and the literary world play an important part in shaping languages. The Swahili they write influence the readers and their languages. The literary obstacle in Tanzania is not that people do not read, but that they don't read because there are no interesting writers.

Enock Maregesi

#7. If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we ultimately produce something approaching a masterpiece, an acceptable but not particularly memorable work of art, or a creation that wouldn't even be purchased at a yard sale?

Mardy Grothe

#8. Like an inspired and prolific poet, who never refuses to spread beauty to the humblest places, which until now did not seem to share the domain of art, the sun still warmed the bountiful energy of the dung heap, of the unevenly paved yard, and of the pear tree worn down like an old serving maid.

Marcel Proust

#9. The surreal howl wove its way through the cacophony of human voices, a bright, bloody thread in a tapestry of fear.

Christie Golden

#10. It's okay to keep a broken oven in your yard as long as you call it art.

Jenny Lawson

#11. I think trying to create intimacy on a set with a boom over your head can be a little embarrassing.

Ruta Gedmintas

#12. Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.

Vladimir Nabokov

#13. If I had any choice in the matter, I'd stay in my comfy bed and eat warm chocolate chip cookies all day.

Simone Elkeles

#14. It's a lucky man who leaves early from life's banquet, before he's drained to the dregs his goblet - full of wine; yes, it's a lucky man who has not read life's novel to the end, but has been wise enough to part with it abruptly - like me with my Onegin.

Alexander Pushkin

#15. Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

Robert Dale Owen