Nancy Spero Quotes

When I showed ‘Black and the Red III’ in Malmö, Sweden, it was a continuum - a band - all around the galleryseeing this huge space in the gallery in Malmö, I just took a deep breath and I put the paper around in a single band. Then I continued along, printing on the wall like a trompe l’oeil to reiterate the images in the work printed on paper that I had push-pinned to the wall. I literally took the rhythm and the images from ‘Black and the Red III’ and continued that on the wall.

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• In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • World
  • Value

• I have big hands – I wear either a XXXL or XXL glove. I have a 6-8 wingspan on a 5-11 body – I can dunk. My wingspan allows me to do a lot of things that other people at my height might not be able to do.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • People
  • Hands
  • Might

• Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Corrupt
  • Civilisation
  • Attain

• We need hot, dry weather. Upper Valley and New Mexico farmers were not hit as bad with the rainy weather as the cotton farmers in the Lower Valley, but we're (also) having trouble getting equipment in the fields.

  

  John Whiting
  • Bad
  • Hit
  • Farmers

• Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Arms
  • Scheme
  • Removal

• Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Memories
  • Records
  • Tables

• There are people who think I'm a Bolshevik, and this is all a major distraction at best and heresy at worst. But I really don't care.

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Think
  • Care

• I'm such a tease And you're such a flirt... Routines and schedules Drug and kill you Kill you.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Drug
  • Flirting
  • Schedules

• I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.

  

  George Eliot
  • Money
  • Books
  • Temptation

• Actually, social drug-taking went kind of low-key for a couple of years. Probably because of AIDS, people got very conscious of their health. But it seems to be making a comeback. Just the other night I was at a party where people kept disappearing into the bathroom every few minutes. I'm glad I did all that in my 20s and that I'm done with it. And that I wrote about it in Postcards from the Edge.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Night
  • Party
  • Couple

• I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.

  

  Raymond Chandler
  • Country
  • Rooms
  • Streets

• When I showed ‘Black and the Red III’ in Malmö, Sweden, it was a continuum - a band - all around the galleryseeing this huge space in the gallery in Malmö, I just took a deep breath and I put the paper around in a single band. Then I continued along, printing on the wall like a trompe l’oeil to reiterate the images in the work printed on paper that I had push-pinned to the wall. I literally took the rhythm and the images from ‘Black and the Red III’ and continued that on the wall.

  

  Nancy Spero
  • Breaths
  • Printing
  • Gallery