Mark Rothko Quotes
..it was with the utmost reluctance that I found the figure could not serve my purposes.. .But a time came when none of us could use the figure without mutilating it. his quote in 1959, looking back to the 1930's
Quotes to Explore
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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People work hard.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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When I plan to settle down, I will announce it to the world. Marriage is an occasion to celebrate. I'll celebrate it when it happens, letting everyone know about it.
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I got introduced to Shakespeare at four years old, and I fell in love with the language.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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It took me a long time to accept that I was a writer.
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Elections do have consequences, and those we elect and far too often re-elect have forgotten how government works and for whom they work for, and that an ever growing, power hungry state and federal government are not the answer to the problem, but 80% of the time are the problem.
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..it was with the utmost reluctance that I found the figure could not serve my purposes.. .But a time came when none of us could use the figure without mutilating it. his quote in 1959, looking back to the 1930's
