Joan Miro Quotes
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.
Quotes to Explore
-
During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
-
We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
-
Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
-
Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
-
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
-
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
-
It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
-
What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
-
Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
-
In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.
-
According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
-
A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
-
Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
-
You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
-
At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
-
There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
-
You're one of the most natural, great singers I've heard in a long time.
-
I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.
-
A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes out on your rug, and leave at eight to go somewhere more interesting for dinner without inviting you.
-
We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.
-
For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.
-
In any character you do, especially something like 'Watchmen,' if you're gonna do this, you're gonna do this right. I'm fighting for the Comedian every step of the way; there's not even a question, Adrian is a scumbag.
-
There's something refreshing about going into filming and not brushing your hair, letting your toenails chip, drawing darker circles under your eyes.
-
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.
