VERA KLEMENT–1929-2024–PAINTER–
TO ME EVERY PAINTING I MAKE IS EXTREMELY JOYOUS, EXTREMELY EXHILARATING. They recognize the nightmare but confirm rather than deny human life.
Joanne Berens, a former student: VERA TAUGHT ME that a painter must balance craft and ideas: too much skill and a painting is boring, too conceptual and a painting is bloodless. Although her own ideas came from high European culture, Vera was never a snob and encouraged her students to express ideas that came from the stuff of their own lives.
OPPRESSIVE LANGUAGE does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
TONI MORRISON
MUSIC IS AN OUTBURST OF THE SOUL. FREDERICK DELIUS
CONTROL HEALTHCARE AND YOU CONTROL THE PEOPLE. SAUL ALINSKY
BUCK BRANNAMAN 1962—-“The Faraway Horses” “Ranch Roping” “Believe”.
HORSES ARE VERY KEEN ON BODY LANGUAUE & WHAT I REFER TO AS “PRESENCE” & EXPRESSION. THEY KNOW QUITE A BIT ABOUT YOU BEFORE YOU EVER GET TO ‘EM. THEY CAN READ THINGS ABOUT CLEAR ACROSS AN ARENA.
THE HORSE is a great equalizer — he doesn’t care how good looking you are or how rich you are or how powerful you are — he takes you for how you make him feel.
WHETHER it’s horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn’t become an art until your soul goes into what you do.
HORSES are incredibly forgiving. They fill in places we’re not capable of filling ourselves.
IT IS ALL ABOUT THE QUALITY OF THE COMMUNICATION NOT THE QUANTITY.
THE HORSE is a mirror to your soul . . . and sometimes you might not like what you see in the mirror.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT 1882-1945 32 U.S. PRESIDENT Created Social Security. Four terms as President. Married to Eleanor a force in her own right.
WE must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
WE ARE A NATION of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, sees to degrade all nationalities.
HUMAN KINDNESS has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
THE LIBERTY OF A DEMOCRACY is not safe is the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That is in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power.
REPETITION DOES NOT TRANSFORM A LIE INTO A TRUTH.