"People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable."

-- Harold H. Greene

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #Court Quotes

“I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.”
“If the world knew how to use freedom without abusing it, tyranny would not exist.”
“I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.”
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.”

Source : A Treatise upon Human Nature bk. 2 (1739)
“Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays. Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature.”

Source : "Philosophy and the Arts: Collected Essays". Book by Bert Olivier, 2009.
“Every morning when I wake up, I make up my mind to solve as many problems, before retiring home”
“Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin.”
“Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose.”

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