Philip Guston Quotes

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

Philip Guston

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• It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • World
  • Live
  • Political

• I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Parents
  • Baby
  • Strict

• The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • School
  • True
  • Pretty

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Mirror

• As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Years
  • New
  • New York

• I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Intelligence

• All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Earth
  • Military
  • Blue

• My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Job
  • Control
  • Myself

• It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • World
  • Important
  • Changes

• When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Opportunity
  • Use
  • Prepared

• If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Want
  • You
  • Going

• Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Hope
  • Man

• Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • God
  • Business
  • Attention

• Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Live
  • Man
  • Employment

• I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Life
  • Live
  • Day

• The way our government handled the Chibok girls case goes beyond an election matter. This is not a one-time issue we discuss over elections. We need to have a deeper conversation about what kind of a nation we want to be.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Time
  • Want
  • Government

• To put as little pressure on the relationship you're in is very important.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Important
  • You
  • Relationship

• Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • People
  • Past
  • Evil

• When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I should be seeing or thinking; I want to feel whatever I feel, see whatever I see, and figure out what I figure out.

  

  James Frey
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Painting

• I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.

  

  Ellen Wong
  • Inspired

• Evil was necessary because without it free will was impossible, and without free will there could be no growth—no forward movement, no chance for us to become what God longed for us to be. Horrible and all-powerful as evil sometimes seemed to be in a world like ours, in the larger picture love was overwhelmingly dominant, and it would ultimately be triumphant.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Free
  • Evil
  • Necessary

• I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Music
  • Long
  • Care

• Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

  

  Philip Guston
  • Painting
  • Inspired