New Zealand Arts Education Quotes & Sayings

Meanwhile the doctor in Kaitaia had made known to the Education Dept the behaviour patterns of the Rusts in Te Hapua. The Dept always interfered in the private lives of teachers. Break up in marriage was not to be tolerated and an intervention of this authority forced the Rusts to report to Parawera School in the Waikato. — Theresa Sjoquist

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods. — Yves Tanguy

I decided I had to find out if it was my scene or not. So I stepped in at the deep end. It leads you to survive or drown. Very often you survive. — Theresa Sjoquist

There's nothing wrong with caring about something, regardless of what it means to other people. — Chelsea Pitcher

Depend on no one else to give you what you want — Destiny's Child

Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies. — Michel Hazanavicius

It's very hard to reach people in Greymouth with pottery or any form of art because they're allergic to it. Allergic to it ever since they began really because they've taken from the ground in the mining spirit without making or creating, and therefore anything that is creative they do not understand. — Theresa Sjoquist

I realised that I had become too introverted. When you are the person everyone comes to in an isolated area, you have no-one to discuss things with. It's good up to a point but dreadful in a way. You simply have to have the corners rubbed off you and have criticism that's pretty cruel if you are to toe the line. — Theresa Sjoquist

She was an autocrat, didn't really believe in democracy. The benefit of her approach was that, if you work with twenty people and ask everybody's opinion, you would never achieve what she did. — Theresa Sjoquist

No-one has the right to terminate a person's life with a gun, a knife, or a makutu (spell). — Theresa Sjoquist

When will the human race choose wisely? All know it is just as eventful, if not more so, when the young seek adventure, purpose, and dreams; instead of blaming everyone but themselves if they choose otherwise — Theresa Sjoquist

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head. — Frank Gehry

I have never found a solo life is devastated.At times it is lonely.It is a selfish life doing only the things you want to do. That is what the general public are jealous of but are not prepared to take the loneliness to reap the excitement that only solos can accept without having to consider others. — Theresa Sjoquist

The longer I have been on the raw food path, the more I tend to come full circle and return to where my original ideas and inspiration of wanting to eat raw food come from - and that's natural hygiene and its principles. — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

It was hard to get jobs on farms doing wool-classing, but I got them. They had to learn to like a female wool-classer. — Theresa Sjoquist

I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them. — Treat Williams

I've never been in a street fight. — Liam Neeson

Truth is more than a mental exercise. — Thurgood Marshall

We all change. The causes are different; that's all. Some people change because they want to, some because they have to. Sometimes it's a choice and sometimes it's not. You didn't get to pick. — Tami Hoag

Later in life the force of abstinence was to really be understood and my parent's problems became very clear. When will man appreciate his pleasures and respect them enough to indulge in moderation? — Theresa Sjoquist

Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it. — Laurence J. Peter