Markusen Artist Quotes & Sayings

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling. — Leo Tolstoy

Look, this is a man, he's got great numbers. He talks about numbers. I'm beginning to think not only did he invent the Internet, but he invented the calculator. It's fuzzy math. It's a scaring - trying to scare people in the voting booth. Under my tax plan, that he continues to criticize, I set a third - the federal government should take no more than a third of anybody's check. — George W. Bush

The spirit of the West, of America, is different than the East. The cultural conditioning is very different. It seems to be harder for people to work in teams, more difficult for people here to live in harmony, in a monastery. — Frederick Lenz

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter. — Oliver North

The challenges and changes you meet are, in effect, hand delivered to you by a generous, loving Universe for the purpose of making you stronger and wiser. — Chris Prentiss

I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust. — Abu Nuwas

For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

So that I could better remember these necessary attributes, I have put them in acrostic form as a memory tool:
P - praise
R - repentance which is acknowledged through confession
A - appreciation or thanksgiving
Y - yielding to God's Will
E - entreaty or supplication
R - renewal of fellowship with God — Teresa Hampton

Literature has always been the last refuge, in this world, for those who do not know where to lay their dreaming heads. — Romain Gary

There's a lot of violence in Beethoven not explicitly suggested by the notes or in his markings, necessarily. There's just a way that it looks on the page that encourages it to be played in a certain fashion. — Nico Muhly

I don't believe there are any powers, which in the larger sense, are unnatural or even supernatural. I think we just do not yet scientifically understand all of the powers inherent in the human consciousness, and the more attuned we are to the realm of spirit, the more our conscious mind is available to subconscious, spiritual prompting. — Marianne Williamson

I'm not the only person in the world who is suffering. I'm trying to talk to the world, responding to those voices. — Dorianne Laux