Oskar Kokoschka Quotes

I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

Oskar Kokoschka

• Imagination
• Exterior
• Dissipate

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Time
  • Best
  • Professional

• The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Life
  • Good
  • True

• I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Life
  • Different
  • Think

• Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Freedom
  • Mean
  • Mistakes

• Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Character

• Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Done
  • Remember
  • Body

• Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in western Oklahoma. When the dust storms came and everything got wiped out, they came to California. The guys with the mattresses on the tops of their cars in the movie? That was the way it was.

  

  B. Wayne Hughes
  • Family
  • Movie
  • You

• I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Think
  • Living
  • Paradise

• My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Parents
  • Brother
  • Lawyer

• I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Movies

• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Started
  • Musicals

• I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Up
  • Love
  • Single

• The way I look at it you can always get better.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • You
  • Better
  • Look

• My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • People
  • Truth
  • Faith

• I like to post positive content, and I like to try and make people smile. That's why those videos are popular. I don't fake it.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • People
  • Why
  • Positive

• The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Love
  • True
  • Action

• I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Great
  • God
  • Believe

• Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great
  • Honor
  • Trump

• It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • Fly

• My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • People
  • Imagination
  • Better

• The individual under this kind of life, with no rights, has absolutely no power in this land. How can they even ask you for creativity? Or imagination, or courage or passion?

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Life
  • Power
  • Passion

• I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Imagination
  • Exterior
  • Dissipate