Kurt Schwitters Quotes
I cannot make a living out of art and I now occupy myself with a variety of things. Of course, I continue to paint and to nail, but in particular I write grotesques and art reviews for newspapers, I organize evenings a.o. with Theo van Doesburg and draw commercial art for newspapers.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
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When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
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To establish personal relationships with the people you work with is stupid, because you never know when the winds will change. I try not to get too close to people.
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My high school didn't have a football team; we just had like a surf team, because I grew up in Encinitas, California, which is the ultimate place where everyone skated or surfed, so it was a very different culture. It was, like, cool to be the art kid.
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I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?
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I cannot make a living out of art and I now occupy myself with a variety of things. Of course, I continue to paint and to nail, but in particular I write grotesques and art reviews for newspapers, I organize evenings a.o. with Theo van Doesburg and draw commercial art for newspapers.
