Wassily Kandinsky Quotes
Kandinsky, Wassily – painter, printmaker and author – the first painter to base painting on purely pictorial means of expression and abandon objects in his pictures.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.
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My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like 'The Day After Tomorrow' where I walk across country to find my family. That would be the kind of person I would be. I feel like I wouldn't be as scared. If it happens, it happens. You face it.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
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There's not a lot of good TV.
Colson Whitehead -
It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
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When I'm working I wear so much makeup, and when I'm out with my friends I wear makeup, so sometimes at school I'm just like, 'Today is not much of a makeup day - foundation, chapstick - done.'
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Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the middle of the woods, all alone, painting?
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Kandinsky, Wassily – painter, printmaker and author – the first painter to base painting on purely pictorial means of expression and abandon objects in his pictures.
