Eduardo Chillida Quotes
Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks.
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‘…Women I do not much care for myself - I prefer little Greek shepherd-boys…’
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Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.
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Art is not for the personal satisfaction of one or the other, but art wants to return all what's in life... Art wants to give back everything what's in our lives. The more comprehensive the artist stands in life the more powerful his work will speak, and therefore a work of art is a measure of the mental size of his creator.
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I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
