Naum Gabo Quotes
The image my work invokes is the image of good – not evil; the image of order – not chaos; the image of life – not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.
Quotes to Explore
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.
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If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
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Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art.
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People recognize me once in a while and appreciate the work. It gets a little embarrassing, but it's good. If you work as an accountant, you don't have people coming up to you in the streets saying, 'Hey, great job on tax statements!'
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Sometimes I get in writing moods and I want to write a song every couple of days. Then sometimes I may not write a song for three weeks. It's just according to how it's hitting me at the time.
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I think that women are peacemakers by genetics, because we are the ones who stay at home and because we are the ones who suffer with the aftermath of war.
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The image my work invokes is the image of good – not evil; the image of order – not chaos; the image of life – not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.
