Paul Klee Quotes

For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind.

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• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Band
  • Rest
  • Year

• Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Something
  • Afraid
  • Intimacy

• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Art
  • Purpose

• I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Tea
  • Politician
  • Cup

• If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Up
  • Death
  • Die

• I'm always going to love my father.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Father
  • Always
  • Going

• Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Bad
  • Movies

• Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Time
  • World
  • Career

• Whenever I'm out and I hear something, I'm writing. It's the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever you go. I never stop creating.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Writing
  • Stop
  • Process

• Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn't mean you are naturally any good at building an investment operation that is world-class or successful.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Good
  • Successful

• Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• Man must act in such a way that the whole of his individuality lies in each moment.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Lies

• TO-MORROW, to-morrow, thou loveliest May,To-morrow will rise up thy first-born day;Bride of the summer, child of the spring,To-morrow the year will its favourite bring:

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Up
  • May
  • Summer

• It is not among extraordinary and fantastic things that excellence is to be found, of whatever kind it may be. We rise to attain it and become removed from it: it is oftenest necessary to stoop for it.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • May
  • Excellence

• The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.

  

  Aga Khan IV
  • Hope
  • Powerful
  • motivation

• 'You're no help,' he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Help

• I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Pretty
  • Ugly

• I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Work
  • She
  • Movie

• Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • World
  • Great
  • Real

• Jacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Rest

• When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from - there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that's essentially what it is.

  

  Chris Abani
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

  

  Pete Waterman
  • Mind
  • Age

• For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Mind
  • Picture
  • Chair