Brian Eno Quotes

Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens to have landed. You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

Brian Eno Roxy Music

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• I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Anger
  • Paint
  • Someone

• Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers' union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Education
  • Criticism
  • Target

• Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Words
  • Speak
  • Paint

• The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • American
  • Judge
  • Green

• Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • Paint
  • Before

• I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

  

  Man Ray
  • Wish
  • Existence
  • Paint

• I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Running
  • Paint
  • Drive

• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Me
  • Child
  • Paint

• Paint the essential character of things.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Art
  • Character
  • Paint

• Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Know
  • Look
  • Target

• Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • American
  • Latin
  • China

• I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Girl
  • Paint
  • Instagram

• Cupid draw back your bow and let your arrow go straight to my lover's heart for me, for me...Cupid please hear my cry and let your arrow fly straight to my lover's heart for me.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Heart
  • Arrow
  • Cupid

• Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Up
  • Stop
  • Dance

• I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Up
  • Music
  • Thinking

• God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • Work
  • God
  • Earth

• We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out the monsters to be scattered by our light. If Satan cloaks himself as an angel of white, intent on deceiving the world, any attempt on our parts to minimize evil is only complicit with his strategy... Turn to the light; don’t fear the shadows it creates.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • Fear
  • Light

• What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Why
  • Rest

• Once you discover white paint, you'll never wash your underwear again.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Paint
  • Underwear

• Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Fate
  • Travels
  • Arrow

• I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.

  

  Chantal Joffe
  • Wanted
  • Changed
  • Paint

• A compassionate attitude helps you communicate more easily with your fellow human beings. As a result, you make more genuine friends and the atmosphere around you is more positive, which gives you greater inner strength. This inner strength helps you spontaneously concern yourself with others, instead of thinking only about yourself.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Friends
  • Positive

• In the old days in San Francisco there was a famous drink called Pisco Punch, made from Pisco, a Peruvian brandy pisco punch used to taste like lemonade but had a kick like vodka, or worse.

  

  Harold Ross
  • Famous
  • San Francisco
  • Vodka

• Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens to have landed. You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Paint
  • Target
  • Arrow