Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere famous quotes

The knowledge of the nature of a horse is one of the first foundations of the art if riding it, and every horseman must make it his principal study.
-- Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

#Art #Horse #Foundation

Horsemanship is the one art for which it seems one needs only practice. However, practice without true principles is nothing other than routine, the fruit of which is a strained and unsure execution, a false diamond which dazzles semi-connoisseurs often more impressed by the accomplishments of the horse than the merit of the horseman.
-- Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

#Art #Horse #Practice

Neither should, for the same reason, the lessons be for too long a period; they fatigue and bore a horse, and it should be returned to the stable with the same good spirits it had upon leaving it.
-- Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

#Horse #Long #Leaving

Above all, a horse should never be chastised out of foul mood or anger, but always with complete dispassion.
-- Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

#Horse #Mood #Should

Others make a point of trying to attain the precision and poise they see in those who have the ability to choose from a great number of horses those with [...] qualities found in only a very small number of horses. This leads to a circumstance in which these imitators of such studied poise mortify the spirit of a noble horse, and remove from it all of the goodness of temperament Nature has given it.
-- Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

#Horse #Small Numbers #Trying

Grace is so great an adornment for a rider, and at the same time so important a means to the knowledge of all that which is necessary for persons aspiring to become riders, that such persons should willingly sped the time required to obtain that quality at the outside of their endeavors.
-- Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

#Mean #Grace #Important

In order to have a good hand, it must be light, gentle, and firm.
-- Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

#Light #Hands #Order

A light hand is one which never feels the contact of the bit with the bars.
-- Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

#Light #Hands #Bars

A firm hand is one which holds the horse in full contact.
-- Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

#Horse #Hands #Contact

Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.

I don't like being on a horse. That's the only negative of doing a Western. I like the whole get up, and I look great in a hat. But I get tense around horses. So, if they could make a fake horse, then I'd do a Western.

To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse.

Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River.

If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress.

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

The national government...will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality.

The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.

Your inner strength is your outer foundation

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . .