"We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future."

-- Craig D. Idso

#Past Quotes #Judging Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.”
“It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.”
“You guys take over while I go put on a shirt." Mrs. Kulavich had edged close enough to hear him. She beamed at him. "Don't bother on my account," she said. "Sadie!" Mr. Kulavich said in rebuke. "Oh, hush, George! I'm old, not dead!" "I'll remind you of that the next time I want to watch the Playboy Channel," he growled.”
“I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic reflections as well as visual reflections from a mirror or surface, and then reflecting on the material in a contemplative way. The other influence is listening to the tails of the sounds that you make.”

Source : Source: www.artpractical.com
“I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.”
“I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't talk about the paintings. They end up telling me the story of their life or how their father died.”
“Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark,swollen buds, strip-tease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora.”
“I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.”

Source : "The changing picture". www.newyorker.com. November 11, 1996.

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