Art Quote by Paul La Farge

“every one is a visionary, if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt is a visionary without scratching.”

— W.B. Yeats

“The Professor shook his head. ‘On the contrary, my motives are most simple, to advance science and to combat evil.”

— Robert Rankin

“Some have conscience some others have con science. Beware you're not conned.”

— Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“I am suspicious of my existing ideas, my conscious thoughts and convictions. They are what I need to get beyond, into ignorance and after…

— Louise Glück

“I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong…

— William Zinsser

“On the first day of class, the Visual Arts building reclined before me like an old brick whore, egging me to show her one,…

— Chip Kidd

“That was what university was: thinking you were going to open yourself up to a universe, and meeting nobody.”

— Amélie Nothomb

“How come I have to be the one sitting around analyzing him in like microscopic detail, and he gets to be the one with…

— Angela

“This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

“The problem is the teacher, and within its shadow hides the light. When you face it with stillness and trust, the veil lifts and…

— Pamela Cox

“Even ruins are teachers, if we listen to what fell.”

— Lawrence Nault

“Here was the old Professor Emerson, simmering beneath Gabriel's chastened exterior.”

— Sylvain Reynard