Paul Klee Quotes
The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
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I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
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I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
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I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
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There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.
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I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.
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This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.
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The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and, if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall.
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The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.
