Ellsworth Kelly Quotes

My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes - I call them flashes, because they come to me, like that. Not so much in the plant drawings. I have to see them.

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• Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Important
  • True
  • Importance

• There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Good
  • You
  • Simple

• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Step
  • Ridiculous
  • Sublime

• I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Fun
  • Paris

• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Legislature

• Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Practice
  • Self
  • Meditation

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • You
  • Mad

• Death is the beginning of something.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
  • Beginning
  • Something

• It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Train
  • General
  • Casualties

• I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Why
  • Happy
  • Know

• I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Home
  • America
  • Today

• To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Say
  • I Can
  • Clear

• I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Farm

• I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Football
  • Basketball
  • Very

• Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Patience

• When I see dads being most effective with children, it is usually when they have an intuitive understanding that, for example, the car trip to and from the soccer game is potentially as important as the game itself.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Important
  • Children
  • Game

• It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Truth
  • Appreciation

• Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Imagination
  • Profound
  • Deserted

• There were three great Virginia poets in the very beginning - George Washington, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson. 'What!' you say. 'We do not even know the names of their publishers. They were not poets!' Well, how do you know? Did you ever really read them? What do you know about it? Their very names will breathe poetry forever.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • Great
  • Beginning
  • Forever

• Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Money
  • Health

• There are few things in life that are harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Important
  • Birth

• Just look at herbal remedies. It's essentially a throwback. It's saying you go to a plant and you mush it up and you stick it in the jar and you sell it and you eat it and it's going to cure what ails you. And that's the kind of stuff that people believed in the early 19th century.

  

  Marcia Angell
  • People
  • Up
  • Plant

• My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes - I call them flashes, because they come to me, like that. Not so much in the plant drawings. I have to see them.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Plant