Ellsworth Kelly Quotes
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
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It is always good to be on the scoresheet.
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You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me.
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I hate birthdays.
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Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.
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Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.
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The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.
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Authenticity means to be the author of your own life.
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I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.
