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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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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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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While my calendar with Moda Operandi often takes me to fashionable locales like Milan and Paris, I am thrilled when opportunities to visit new places present themselves.
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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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And the substance out of which this bubble is blown, the soap-film, is empty space welded onto empty time.
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I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.
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There's a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from the brain and off the tongue, when in fact they are crafted over weeks and months and years.
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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.
