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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
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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.
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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.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
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I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
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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.
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To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.
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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.
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I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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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.
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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.
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Folk is bare bones music.
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In some parts of the world there is very little tidal movement.
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I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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My botanical documents should contribute to restoring the link with nature. They should reawaken a sense of nature, point to its teeming richness of form, and prompt the viewer to observe for himself the surrounding plant world.
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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.
