Holden And The Museum Quotes & Sayings

From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him. — Paul Klee

So, I got into the law enforcement game. I worked for an outfit called Newton Detective Agency for a while. I worked eight hours on the waterfront making sure the longshoremen didn't take too many things. — Clint Walker

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music. — Vincent Van Gogh

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor. — Henry Miller

Methinks Sir Robert should have carried his Monarchical Power one step higher and satisfied the World, that Princes might eat their Subjects too. — John Locke

Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates to maintain these errors. When the clouds of ignorance began to vanish and the people grew more enlightened, there was no other way to keep them in error but to prohibit their altering their religious opinions by severe persecuting laws. In this way persecution became general throughout Europe. — Oliver Ellsworth

Giving respect is an obligation, not a favor; it is an act of maturity, birthed in a profound understanding of God's good grace. — Gary L. Thomas

There let them bide until we have devised Some never-heard-of torturing pain for them. — William Shakespeare