Umberto Boccioni Quotes
To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.
Quotes to Explore
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The attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced to dropped into my lap... I chose not to dump her off.
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Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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I wouldn't argue that Mitt Romney is a white supremacist.
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Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.
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Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.
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Illinois' economy will benefit from the modernization of the power sector.
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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
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I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.
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Making a donation is the ultimate sign of solidarity. Actions speak louder than words.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
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Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.
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Producers on Broadway approached us with an original script after relaunching ourselves as 'A Great Big World,' and wanted us to write the music. They asked us to make the music we would sing if we could, and so we can go a little crazier. We refer to it as 'our music on steroids.'
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I was among one of the first entrepreneurs to start building their own private enterprise when Perestroika began in Russia and the state initiated its first market-oriented reforms.
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We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim. The Past is for us; but the sole terms on which it can become ours are its subordination to the Present. Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.
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Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.
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What is unreasonable is irrefutable.
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The people are tired of these mainstream media outlets telling them who should be the boss, who should be the nominee, because it hasn't worked.
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Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable.
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To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.
