Paul Klee Quotes

I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.

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• Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Journalism
  • Primitive
  • Incredibly

• English churchmen have long gazed with love on the primitive church as the ideal of Christian perfection, the Eden wherein the first fathers of their faith walked blameless before God and passionless towards each other.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Christian
  • Perfection

• One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Long
  • Science

• The emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.

  

  Margaret Millar
  • Death
  • Birth
  • Primitive

• But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Improvement
  • Ignorant
  • Stereotype

• Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be as a newborn babe?

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Newborn
  • Attending
  • Supple

• Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.

  

  Anton Webern
  • Art
  • Mean
  • Unity

• I can't think of any flower that wouldn't be suitable to merge with an image of a newborn, and as I was planning for the book, Miracle, I was drawn to blossoms that appealed to me artistically.

  

  Anne Geddes
  • Flower
  • Miracle
  • Newborn

• We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Love
  • Idea
  • Morality

• What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Advantage
  • Intellectual
  • Primitive

• A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.

  

  Juan Goytisolo
  • Style
  • Artist
  • Expression

• Hannibal Lecter: We live in a primitive time - don't we, Will? - neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Book
  • Wise
  • Half

• Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

  

  Blake Mycoskie
  • Stories
  • Communication
  • Primitive

• There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies, impulses, rages, hatreds, primitive instincts. They're buried deep, usually, and that's where they belong.

  

  Kay Hooper
  • Human
  • Conscious
  • Fantasy

• Although a biologist, I must confess I do not understand how life came about... I consider that life only starts at the level of a functional cell. The most primitive cells may require at least several hundred different specific biological macro-molecules. How such already quite complex structures may have come together, remains a mystery to me. The possibility of the existence of a Creator, of God, represents to me a satisfactory solution to this problem.

  

  Werner Arber
  • Different
  • Together
  • Existence

• There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.

  

  William Baziotes
  • Collaboration
  • Unconscious
  • Primitive

• Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.

  

  Paul D. Boyer
  • Real
  • Car
  • Driving

• The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Earth
  • Common
  • Reverence

• While my parents both worked full-time, we still grappled with the scourge of working-class poverty. But my entrepreneurial mother used her research skills to consult. And, along with my dad, she even ran a soul food restaurant for my great-aunt.

  

  Stacey Abrams
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Restaurant

• Dodd continued to hope that the murders would so outrage the German public that the regime would fall, but as the days passed he saw no evidence of any such outpouring of anger.

  

  Erik Larson
  • Political
  • Fall
  • Politics

• The old adage tells us that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, but the math tells us why: the unknown has a chance of being better, even if we actually expect it to be no different, or if it’s just as likely to be worse.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Chance
  • Grass
  • Adage

• The West was not dull, it was stupendously dull, and when not dull it was murderous. A man could get killed without realizing it. There were unbelievable flash floods, weird snakes, and God Himself did not know what else, along with Indians descending as swiftly as the funnel of a tornado.

  

  Evan S. Connell
  • God
  • Realizing
  • Murderous

• I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Primitive
  • Newborn