Beltracchi Painter Quotes & Sayings

What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power. — Sylvia Thompson

Every philharmonic orchestra merely interprets the composer. My goal was to create new music by that composer. In doing so, I wanted to find the painter's creative center and become familiar with it, so that I could see through his eyes how his paintings came about and, of course, see the new picture I was painting through his eyes - before I even painted it. — Wolfgang Beltracchi

What cause then, to have me in hysterics of unknown kind?
Far-off the clandestine black where my road I cannot find,
What cause then, to submit me not here? — Mpho Leteng

Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hyacinth took out a bottle of rum, and Phaedra raised her eyebrows, a reflex she'd acquired upon seeing her father and mother under its influence, their eyes and mouths turned wilder, as if a cork at the edges of their personalities had come unscrewed. — Naomi Jackson

Conservatives conserve and that is why they became irrelevant. — John Reid

There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile, living up to credits given his home-run power - and yet a need for intimate affection and respect, and a feverish desire to play baseball, perform, act and live a life he didn't and couldn't take time to understand. — Waite Hoyt

The more pressure you place on yourself, in search of increase the more you will likely get of it — Sunday Adelaja

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise. — Andy Hargreaves

It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast between
the standards of the past and the standards of the present. Some
fulfil that duty on purpose, others by accident. — Norman Davies

I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you halfway, bringing his or her own experience to bear on everything you've written. What I mean is that it is not only the writer's memory that filters experience, but the reader's as well. — Ruth Reichl

As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances, over inefficient days; they worried constantly about how long they would live, because counting life's moments had led, inevitably, to counting them down. Soon, in every nation and in every language, time became the most precious commodity. — Mitch Albom

I will sign a universal health-care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family's premium by up to $2,500 a year. — Barack Obama

It is in the dark quietness the mind likes to play. The weak and tired body looses it's battle for power while the minds plays it's wild adventures for you to explore. — E.A.G.

If I do it you won't ever worry?'
'I won't worry about that because it's perfectly simple.'
Then I'll do it. Because I don't care about me. — Ernest Hemingway,

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul. — David Lloyd George