The essence of teaching, the soul of the art, is being brave enough, psychologically unencumbered enough, to see exactly what is taking place in the minds of your students at any given moment and then--like a good psychotherapist--speak to and through their defenses to uncover the true promise of the lesson, its hidden meaning. This significance will almost always be different from what you originally took it to be and at odds with the lesson plan. But that is what makes teaching a creative act. One doesn't just dispense information--one brings insight into being. I am surprised by what I "teach" all the time. Robert Inchausti American Teacher More Robert Inchausti Quotes 1
Art therapy is about the creation and the discussion of the intent of the client. It's a different way of sharing. No matter how healthy, verbal expression is the hardest thing to do. Kelly Roberts More Kelly Roberts Quotes 1
He was interested in the ritualistic aspect of African art. African art, like Picasso's art, is not about describing things, but about conveying the idea of things and people. The influence of African art on Picasso can be seen in the works he produced from 1907-9. Marilyn Martin More Marilyn Martin Quotes 1
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. Sun Tzu Chinese General More Sun Tzu Quotes 1
I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today. Wallace Stevens American Poet More Wallace Stevens Quotes 1
Your recess, your art, your music, your PE - those are things that are created for children's interest as well as their learning. Those may be the very reasons children love coming to school. For some children, recess is the only area of the school day in which they really excel. ... If you take that away, you really are hurting the child. Rhonda Clements More Rhonda Clements Quotes 1
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish. William Osler Canadian Physician More William Osler Quotes 1
A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints. Wilfred Peterson More Wilfred Peterson Quotes 1
I don't like the competition part of soccer. It's a war in short pants. I prefer art. Shakira Colombian Singer More Shakira Quotes 1
By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors. Thomas Babington Macaulay English Historian More Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes 1
Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune. Ritchie Blackmore English Musician More Ritchie Blackmore Quotes 1
All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death. Jacques Lipchitz Polish Sculptor More Jacques Lipchitz Quotes 1
I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity. John Lone American Actor More John Lone Quotes 1
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. William Hazlitt English Critic More William Hazlitt Quotes 1
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. Friedrich Nietzsche German Philosopher More Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes 1
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. Abraham Lincoln American President More Abraham Lincoln Quotes 1
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. Agnes Martin Canadian Artist More Agnes Martin Quotes 1
We have art in order not to die of the truth. Friedrich Nietzsche German Philosopher More Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes 1
Democracy is the art of thinking independently together. Alexander Meiklejohn English Philosopher More Alexander Meiklejohn Quotes 1
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. Toni Morrison American Novelist More Toni Morrison Quotes 1
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them. Franz Marc German Artist More Franz Marc Quotes 1
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. C. S. Lewis British Author More C. S. Lewis Quotes 1