Ellsworth Kelly Quotes
Gray goes with gold. Gray goes with all colors. I've done gray-and-red paintings, and gray and orange go so well together. It takes a long time to make gray because gray has a little bit of color in it.
Quotes to Explore
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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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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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand.
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Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai must be the soul of Japan. … The nation has no spiritual foundation. That is why you don’t agree with me. You will just be American mercenaries. There you are in your tiny world. You do nothing for Japan. … I salute the Emperor. Long live the emperor!
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It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.
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Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.
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I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.'
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Gray goes with gold. Gray goes with all colors. I've done gray-and-red paintings, and gray and orange go so well together. It takes a long time to make gray because gray has a little bit of color in it.
