David Sylvester famous quotes

06-16-2025

The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.
I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs
It takes a great man to make a great listener
Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.
Tut, Tut, looks like rain
There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.
I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
I paint with my back to the world
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

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