Willem de Kooning Quotes

An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.

Willem de Kooning

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• In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • World
  • Live
  • Safety

• Netflix is something I watch.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Something
  • Watch
  • Netflix

• I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Life
  • Love
  • Parents

• The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Imagination
  • Spirit
  • Creates

• I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated these lines into the Chinese constitution, and we also implement the stipulation in real earnest. I think for any government, what is most important is to ensure that its people enjoy each and every right given to them by the constitution.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Fascinated

• The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Real
  • Drama
  • Epic

• Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
  • Always
  • Old

• Television isn't my career. Business is.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Business
  • Career
  • Television

• You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Love
  • Career
  • Goal

• Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Water

• Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • Truth

• Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity, then of our wisdom, ultimately of our coercion.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Men
  • Wisdom

• Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles. He saved hundreds of thousands of lives, are you going to convict Jack Bauer? Say that criminal law is against him? 'You have the right to a jury trial?' Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer? I don't think so.'

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Law

• In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.

  

  Dawn Steel

• My heart is with the WNBA. I've had success in the league, I've loved the league. I'm a true fan of the league.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • Heart
  • True
  • Success

• I think sketch writing is a good spot for everyone to start because it requires you to develop characters, have a beginning, middle and end and have a bunch of jokes in a short amount of time.

  

  Blake Anderson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• I took on the math-intensive art form of holography and, in my early 20s, traveled the world, living on university fellowships to pursue this esoteric craft. I didn't date much, really - perhaps because I didn't have many hormones, though I didn't know that at the time.

  

  Mary Lou Jepsen
  • Time
  • World
  • Art

• How then shall mathematical concepts be judged? They shall not be judged. Mathematics is the supreme arbiter. From its decisions there is no appeal. We cannot change the rules of the game, we cannot ascertain whether the game is fair. We can only study the player at his game; not, however, with the detached attitude of a bystander, for we are watching our own minds at play.

  

  David van Dantzig
  • Education
  • Player
  • Attitude

• I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Business
  • Bitter
  • Jealous

• The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.

  

  Cynthia Kenyon
  • Hope
  • Age

• Our young men are going into the professional fields because they don't 'feel called' to the mission field. We don't need a call; we need a kick in the pants. We must begin thinking in terms of 'going out,' and stop our weeping because 'they won't come in.' Who wants to step into an igloo? The tombs themselves are not colder than the churches. May God send us forth.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Church

• An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.

  

  Willem de Kooning