"Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to; art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language."

-- Jerry Saltz

#Country Quotes #Art Quotes #Mentor Quotes

“The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.”
“I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person.”
“When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.”
“I feel my work is a success in so far as I get to wake up every morning and do what I love to do more than anything in the world.”

Source : Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.
“I discovered that forgiveness is a path to freedom.”
“It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.”
“To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic”
“The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to restrain its bad ones.”

Source : "Podstawy polityki polskiej", Przegląd Wszechpolski, 343, 349, 358-359, July 1905.

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