Emil Nolde Quotes

If I were tied to the letter of the Scriptures and rigid dogma, I believe I could not have painted these profoundly felt paintings about the Eucharist and the 'Pentecost' religious paintings, he made c. 1909-11) I had to be artistically free - not have God before me. like a steely Assyrian ruler, but God in me, hot and holy like Christ's love.

Emil Nolde

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• People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Music
  • Dad

• I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Process

• While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Power
  • Mistake
  • Decisions

• The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Good Thing
  • Storage

• I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Thinking
  • College
  • Smart

• It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Too Much

• Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • You
  • Moment
  • Gift

• I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Children
  • Think
  • Fat

• I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Hair
  • Pink
  • Fifteen

• I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Friend
  • Fire
  • Forest

• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Career
  • Tennis

• I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Success

• I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • True
  • Help
  • Military

• I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Enjoy

• I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Football
  • Chance
  • Tennis

• Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Trouble
  • Big
  • Getting

• What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Economy
  • Rules
  • Plan

• Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Together
  • Simple
  • Better

• I've sung background for a couple of bands.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Couple
  • Bands
  • Background

• I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Society
  • Reflection

• Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

  

  Elizabeth Ashley
  • Up
  • Heart

• Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • God
  • Man
  • Light

• I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

  

  Chester Bennington Linkin Park
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Rock

• If I were tied to the letter of the Scriptures and rigid dogma, I believe I could not have painted these profoundly felt paintings about the Eucharist and the 'Pentecost' religious paintings, he made c. 1909-11) I had to be artistically free - not have God before me. like a steely Assyrian ruler, but God in me, hot and holy like Christ's love.

  

  Emil Nolde
  • God
  • Believe
  • Free