Van Acker Artist Quotes & Sayings

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. — Vladimir Putin

In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion - ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in. — William Kittredge

In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face is that, in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. ~ Anton Ego, Ratatouille — Walt Disney Company

Sometimes my pathology just spills out into the camera doesn't it? — Craig Ferguson

Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted. — Mason Cooley

We are all savages — George Bernard Shaw

They are attracted to something or someone, and they make these initial "decisions" about being attracted based on emotion, not logic. In — John Alanis

Praising and encouraging are very close to pushing, and when you do that you are trying again to take control of his life. Think about why you are lauding something he's done. Is it to help raise his self-esteem? That's manipulation. Is it so he will continue whatever behavior you're praising? That's manipulation. Is it so that he'll know how proud you are of him? That can be a burden for him to carry. Let him develop his own pride from his own accomplishments. — Robin Norwood

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons. — Brennan Manning

You should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them. — Paulo Coelho

The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant — John Steinbeck

He was from a different class, too poor, and they would never approve if their daughter became serious with someone like him. — Nicholas Sparks