Lytchett Manor Quotes & Sayings

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost! — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself. — Joan Miro

It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about. — Richard Ford

Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it. — Patricia Wentworth

[E]very society imposes some of its values on those raised within it, but the point is that some societies try to maximize that effect, and some try to minimize it. You come from one of the latter and you're being asked to explain yourself to one of the former. Prevarication will be more difficult than you imagine; neutrality is probably impossible. You cannot choose not to have the politics you do; they are not some separate set of entities somehow detachable from the rest of your being; they are a function of your existence. — Iain M. Banks

A hard lesson had been learned
that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits. — Lois Lenski

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. — Noam Chomsky