Josef Albers Quotes
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is — as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
Quotes to Explore
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.
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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
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I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.
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It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.
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President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.
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With President Obama, we will move America forward.
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Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.
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It is not 'scientism' to concede the objectivity and precision of good science, any more than it is history worship to concede that Napoleon did once rule in France and the Holocaust actually happened. Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
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Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
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Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.
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Say, whence is the voice that, when anger is burning, Bids the whirl of the tempest to cease? That stirs the vexed soul with an aching - a yearning For the brotherly hand-grip of peace?
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Who is the loving person? The loving person is the person who loves him or herself. I say this so often, and people say, 'Oh yes, you're so right,' but they don't do it! You will never be able to love anyone else until you love yourself. Even With your Fat Thighs!
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Siempre busco alguna luz y siempre en la noche y no alumbrado por ninguna luz.
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The mollusk's motto would be: one must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.
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All my years to this moment All my roads to this wall. All my words to this silence All my pride to this fall. -Songs of Sapphique
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I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.
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What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.
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In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is — as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
