George Grosz Quotes

A composition should be simple and clear. That is why the drawings of children and primitives are so strong.

George Grosz

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• The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Always
  • Said
  • Employment

• So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Law

• I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Best
  • Film
  • Difficult

• I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Foundation

• I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Years

• I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Myself
  • Dance
  • Fitness

• It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Future
  • Parents

• So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Going

• Today, the paparazzi are not just photographers: everyone has a cell phone with a camera. If they see an actor, they click pictures to show it to their friends or have it on their phones and, as an actor, I don't see anything wrong with it. Having said that, there is a limit that has been crossed, but there is nothing right or wrong.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Friends
  • Today
  • Cellphone

• I did not grow up singing Yiddish.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Up
  • Singing
  • Grow

• Real power means you can get what you want without having to exert violence.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Real
  • Power
  • Violence

• In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men’s behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Music
  • Men
  • History

• Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

  

  Larry Wall

• I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Writing
  • Song

• It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

  

  Brad Henry
  • Democracy

• The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.

  

  Jacob Lew
  • People
  • Democracy

• American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.

  

  Donald Freed
  • Great
  • American
  • Future

• There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • World
  • Together
  • Simple

• There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Dream
  • Ideas
  • Atheism

• Charting is a little like surfing. You dont have to know a lot about the physics of tides, resonance, and fluid dynamics in order to catch a good wave. You just have to be able to sense when its happening and then have the drive to act at the right time.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Able
  • Physics
  • Surfing

• I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Pretty
  • Dream
  • Boy

• I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Believe
  • See
  • Causality

• A composition should be simple and clear. That is why the drawings of children and primitives are so strong.

  

  George Grosz
  • Simple
  • Clear
  • Composition