Hans Hofmann Quotes
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.
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We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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Don't you find that the more you know, the more you don't know and can't ever learn because there's too much stuff out there?
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
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Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada.
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You think you can get away, but you can't. I'll follow you home and I'll shout jokes through your letterbox.
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Now the fair goddess, Fortune, Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms Misguide thy opposers' swords!
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
