Ellsworth Kelly Quotes

Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.

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• It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Flow

• If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Different
  • Bad
  • Political

• All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Man
  • Respect

• These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Done
  • Place
  • First

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

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Step
  • Ridiculous
  • Sublime

• For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Time
  • Weird
  • Stupid

• Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Past
  • Like
  • Bones

• Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • You
  • Happiness

• The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Funny
  • Politics

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

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Practice
  • Self
  • Meditation

• My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Work
  • May
  • Society

• I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Theater
  • Director
  • Go

• The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • More
  • Now
  • Almost

• If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Age
  • Brain
  • Road

• When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Picture
  • Person
  • Wants

• Launching a successful product or startup has little to do with luck. Any business that gains traction on the market is the result of very careful strategizing and market analysis, not to mention the development of an original product or service.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Service
  • Luck

• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Process

• What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• We are here today because we want to be responsible stewards of the surplus,

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Today
  • Responsible
  • Surplus

• Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done.

  

  Donald Norman
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Creativity

• I don't really differentiate between different genres: if there's a good part going, I'll go after it, and it's preferable to me if it's something I haven't done before.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Done

• I don't want anybody to take my kindness as a weakness. Like I said before, this is where I want to be, but don't test me. It never was a done deal. It was a possibility. I'm happy about that. But there's two sides to that. On one side, I trust you, but don't play me. I don't care who it is, if it's the Boss, if it's him, don't play me. There are plenty of other teams out there that want my services ... that's the bottom line.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Trust

• Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Done
  • Drawing
  • Plant