Hasenkamp Art Quotes & Sayings

Miri took genuine comfort in studying Mathematics that day. She could sort numbers into two simple ideas: true and not true. Unlike numbers, words were rarely just one thing. They moved and changed, camouflaging and leaping out unexpectedly. Words were slippery and alive; words wrestled out of her grip and became something new. Words were dangerous. — Shannon Hale

I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated. — Alan Ball

Your aspirations are deeply influenced by your inspirations. Don't produce bad situations due to a lack of creative ambitions. — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved. — Denis Dutton

Philosophers call this state of isolation and disconnection "species loneliness" - a deep, unnamed sadness stemming from estrangement from the rest of Creation, from the loss of relationship. As our human dominance of the world has grown, we have become more isolated, more lonely when we can no longer call out to our neighbors. It's no wonder that naming was the first job the Creator gave Nanabozho. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

It's true that if you advise politicians on economic policy in the U.S. today, you spend your time in a cross between inquiry and combat. You are always on the periphery of harsh partisan warfare that has nothing to do with substance. — Robert Shapiro

I only want what's mine. And if I can't have what's mine, I'll take what's yours. — Tamar Cohen

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art. — Miguel De Cervantes

He knows what an unbelievably beautiful circumstance he could be in with you, — Kim Holden

The smoke shifted direction and I breathed in. Breathed out. On the inhale I was angry. On the exhale ... there it was again. Fear. The fear made me angry and the anger made me afraid and I wasn't sure who he was anymore. Or who I was. — Laurie Halse Anderson

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name. — Agnes Macphail

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place. — Rose Tremain

Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability. — Robert A. Heinlein

I became a set designer for opera. — Maurice Sendak