Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, RAwas a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a non-academic historian, a writer, and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth30 November 1874
CityWoodstock, England
In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.
A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.
There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.
The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.
I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.
The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.
Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.
The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.
Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.
Watch your habits, they determine your character.
Unteachable from infancy to tomb - There is the first and main characteristic of mankind.
I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'
The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent.
Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.