Paul Klee Quotes

Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on.

Paul Klee

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• The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

  

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• It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
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• Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.

  

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• I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

  

  Kate McKinnon
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• When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
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• Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.

  

  Laila Ali
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• In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

  

  Pat Brown
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• Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.

  

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• I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

  

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• Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.

  

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• There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.

  

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• We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.

  

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• My first concert was 'Nsync.

  

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• As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer.

  

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• Privacy is important to me. But it's not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don't want anyone to know my business. It's an artistic choice. I think that for any actor to convince their audience that they have completely inhabited a character requires a certain level of anonymity.

  

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• For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that 'the right people' are the ones who have three virtues in common - humility, hunger, and people smarts.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  

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• If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.

  

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• I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry.

  

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• I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

  

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• I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.

  

  Jodie Foster
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• Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
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• Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Art
  • Mood
  • Relationships