Jo Godwin Quotes

We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

People ask me how long it took to make a work. I reply by giving them my age.

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

Works of art are landscapes of the mind.

Fertilizer played a greater role in this case than computers.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

To conceive that compulsion and punishment are the proper means of reformation is the sentiment of a barbarian.

My current works are abstracts cunningly disguised as landscapes. It is the Canadian way.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

Life is a disease.

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.

Something's your vocation if it keeps making more of you.

A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?

Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.