Ernst Haas Quotes

I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.

Ernst Haas

Quotes to Explore

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

W. S. Merwin
- Hands
- Our
- Asleep
In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

Edmund White
- People
- American
- Die
I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.

Nate Berkus
- Old
- Jeans
- Boots
I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.

Talulah Riley
- Life
- Up
- Reading
I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!

Sam Taylor-Wood
- Giving
- Creative
- Act
Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

Cal Thomas
- People
- Government
- Parent