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Quotes on Art
I nominated one of my art teachers for the Teacher of the Year award at our school. I hope she wins!
"Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine." -Magdelena Abakanowics
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." -Pablo Picasso
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." -Pablo Picasso
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it." -Pablo Picasso
"Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine." -Magdelena Abakanowics
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." -Pablo Picasso
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." -Pablo Picasso
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it." -Pablo Picasso
Quotes on Gardens
"A weed is no more than a flower in disguise." -James Russell Lowell
"Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed." -Lewis Gannit
This quote is totally my Grandma. She shouldn't be doing it, with her health and all, but in the summer, she will always go out and pull dandelions from her yard. Then my mom yells at her because she has a bad back and knee.
"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." Mohandas K. Gandhi
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden." -John Erskine
"A garden is the best alternative therapy." -Germaine Greer
"Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas." -Elizabeth Murray
"Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed." -Lewis Gannit
This quote is totally my Grandma. She shouldn't be doing it, with her health and all, but in the summer, she will always go out and pull dandelions from her yard. Then my mom yells at her because she has a bad back and knee.
"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." Mohandas K. Gandhi
"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden." -John Erskine
"A garden is the best alternative therapy." -Germaine Greer
"Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas." -Elizabeth Murray
Quotes on Arrogance
This one is for the awfully arrogant Price, who can make me quite mad.
"Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life -- for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them." -Laura Teresa Marquez
"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own." -Sydney J. Harris
"Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself." -William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
"Arrogance and rudeness are training wheels on the bicycle of life -- for weak people who cannot keep their balance without them." -Laura Teresa Marquez
"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own." -Sydney J. Harris
"Love measures our stature: the more we love, the bigger we are. There is no smaller package in all the world than that of a man all wrapped up in himself." -William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
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