Paul Klee Quotes

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

Paul Klee

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• Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.

  

  Adam Braun
  • People
  • Long
  • High

• The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Art
  • Always
  • Theatre

• I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • War
  • Peace
  • Confidence

• If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Think
  • Free
  • Small

• I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Feeling
  • Brain
  • Dominant

• Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Mean
  • Show
  • Just Because

• An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Action
  • Ethical
  • Pragmatic

• Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Words

• But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Game
  • Finding
  • Literary

• Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Up
  • Family
  • Pretty

• My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • World
  • History
  • Past

• I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Farm

• I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Reality
  • Really
  • Pragmatic

• Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Good
  • Different
  • Family

• We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Spiritual
  • Human
  • Hands

• The Marxist philosophy of dialectical materialism has two outstanding characteristics. One is its class nature: it openly avows that dialectical materialism is in the service of the proletariat. The other is its practicality: it emphasizes the dependence of theory on practice, emphasizes that theory is based on practice and in turn serves practice.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Nature
  • Practice
  • Service

• As the Spanish proverb says, 'He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Home
  • Knowledge
  • Spanish

• Clarice: getting cold feet There's still time!Toni: We can just call everyone and say we're terribly sorry but something came up and we have to leave town!Clarice: ...But what about the five gallons of baba ganoush, and all those tofu pups?Toni: Shit. I forgot. Well, I guess we'll just have to go through with it, then.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Up
  • Time
  • Cold

• Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• My introduction to dissociation had been at Kenneth Cooper's clinic in January of 1975. Cooper had assembled a gaggle of top American distance runners and a half dozen top researchers, the intent being to figure out what the difference was - physiologically, biomechanically, psychologically - between elite and subelite runners.

  

  Don Kardong
  • American
  • Distance

• ... don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by itself is just Pain. But Pain + Distance can = entertainment, voyeurism, human interest, cinéma vérité, a good belly chuckle, a sympathetic smile, a raised eyebrow, disguised contempt.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Pain

• One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Distance
  • Garden
  • Flesh