Willem de Kooning Quotes

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

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• Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Without

• There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Script

• I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • Music
  • Brain

• People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • God
  • Funny

• I don't wear sunscreen. I don't have a skincare program.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Program
  • Wear
  • Sunscreen

• One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Creative

• Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Unique

• Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

  

  Quintilian
  • Men
  • Money
  • Change

• When the lights go down, that's 30,000 peoples lives colliding. Everyone there working is working for that moment, everyone watching is watching for that moment. It's when you're all in agreement about what you're all doing so it's a wonderful feeling of togetherness and possibility.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Moment

• There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Up
  • City
  • Something

• A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with long blond hair was standing under a tree, her face tilted up in delight as its feathery leaves brushed across her face, framing it. A willow tree. Willow.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Up
  • Long
  • Girl

• I've never watched Trainspotting. I just know it's a very critically acclaimed film. In fact, I've never watched any of Danny's movies [means before he met him]. I just worked with him and felt the energy of what he is about initially before I do something. In a way, I think that's why we have discovered each other rather than replicate something else.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Energy

• I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV, I didn't want to be famous, I didn't want to be anyone in particular; I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines, or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle - to have good handbags, or go out with cute guys from shows, or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Nature
  • Desire
  • Ideas

• The absorption of oxygen and the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs take place by diffusion alone. There is no trustworthy evidence of any regulation of this process on the part of the organism.

  

  August Krogh
  • Alone
  • Evidence
  • Oxygen

• I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Believe
  • Bands
  • Don't Believe

• Many women... have buoyed me up in times of weariness and stress. Each friend was important... Their words have seasoned my life. Influence, just like salt shaken out, is hard to see, but its flavor is hard to miss.

  

  Pam Farrel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Thinking
  • House
  • Meditation

• Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment.

  

  Judith Ellen Foster
  • Party
  • Creation
  • Precede

• Many of you would like to take evil and step on it, destroying it like you would a bug. Squish, smash! Begone into another reality! This practice of eliminating human life because it is perceived as evil does you no good. In the end your history and experience are filled with war of one kind or another; humans fighting one another for the right to speak their truth and share their perception.And one human or another is always wanting to suppress someone else's ideas, someone else's thinking.

  

  Barbara Marciniak
  • Experience
  • History
  • Reality

• I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Different
  • Paint

• If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Dreams
  • Paint
  • England

• What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Paint
  • Brushes