"Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Art Quotes #Adventure Quotes

“When I was young, it was easier to make films. It wasn't as expensive, there was more support. I found that I couldn't get the money to make films.”
“The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.”

Source : "Great Pianists on Piano Playing". Book by James Francis Cooke, p. 217, 1999.
“But God has to be given permission to work in this earth realm on behalf of man. You are in control! So if man has control, who no longer has it? God. When God gave Adam dominion, that meant God no longer had dominion. So God cannot do anything in this earth unless we let Him. And the way we let Him or give Him permission is through prayer.”
“Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!”
“With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.”

Source : Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1844). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.252, London : W. Pickering
“By operating independently of government aid, the churches . . . avoid the resentment of those who do not want to be forced to contribute to churches to which they do not belong and of their own members who do not welcome being forced to contribute through government taxation.”

Source : John M. Swomley, Americans for Religious Liberty (1997). “Confronting church and state: memoirs of an activist”
“There are too many countries where the values we take for granted in our civil servants simply do not exist. Seeing these values in action, applied with dedication by hardworking individuals, makes me proud to lead a service that is making life better for millions across Britain.”

Source : "The civil service is not full of fat cats" by Gus O'Donnell, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2010.
“Some people say they're retired and it means they have time to do things they want to do. I have always had the privilege to engage in my hobbies as if they were work. And they are. So hobbies are work, but work that you want to do; they are play. Retirement? That sounds like you're going to passively walk into the sunset and disappear.”

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