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.
Willem de Kooning
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Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.
Salman Khan
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
Quintilian
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I don't believe in having bands for solo records.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
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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
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The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
Elliot W. Eisner
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I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.
Auguste Renoir
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What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.
Abbie Cornish
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A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.
Socrates
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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
