“The Impressionists had to fight the gallery system for many years before becoming accepted. One of their methods of fighting was to band together and hold their own shows.” YearsShowsTogetherFightingBecomingBandMethodAcceptedGalleryImpressionists Author:Oliver $
“How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical... Too soon and too radical a change and you may not master anything or develop a style.” TryingMayStyleMastersDegreesCriticalExperimentsRadicalNew Things Author:Oliver $
“One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master.” MastersSensesArtisticCraftsmanship Author:Oliver $
“Shall I throw away the materials and time paying homage to the perfectionist - knowing that nothing is ever perfect and also knowing that redoing yesterday is not always proceeding to tomorrow's discovery? What an eternal debate!” PerfectKnowingMaterialsTomorrowEternalDiscoveryPerfectionDebateYesterdayPerfectionistHomageProceeding Author:Oliver $
“Can a nasty, horrible person still produce good quality, uplifting and inspirational work?” PersonsStillsQualityProduceHorribleUpliftingNastyGood QualityHorrible Person Author:Oliver $
“You have to control, focus and temper the strength. Uncontrolled strength is usually an explosion. Sometimes on the other hand let it explode and pick up the pieces.” SometimesHandsFocusPiecesStrengthPicksTemperExplosions Author:Oliver $
“The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival.” ThinkingYearsLastsStageJazzLegacyFestivalsAurasMonterey Author:Tim Jackson
“Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.” MenInvolvedContradictionMinistryInterruptedPower Trip Author:Frank Zindler
“Eriugena and other Celtic teachers speak of Christ as our memory, as the one who leads us to our deepest identity, as the one who remembers the song of our beginnings .” RememberSongSpeakChristMemoriesChristianityTeacherIdentityOur MemoriesCeltic Author:John Philip Newell
“[Grace] is given not to make us something other than ourselves but to make us radically ourselves. Grace is given not to implant in us a foreign wisdom but to make us alive to the wisdom that was born with us in our mothers womb. Grace is given not to lead us into another identity but to reconnect us to the beauty of our deepest identity. And grace is given not that we might find some exterior source of strength but that we might be established again in the deep inner security of our being and in learning to lose ourselves in love for one another to truly find ourselves.” MightMotherGivenBornLosesGraceAliveSecurityIdentitySourceMercyWombExteriorImplantsSource Of Strength Author:John Philip Newell