Naum Gabo Quotes

The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.

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• In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • True
  • Painting
  • Idea

• I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• We have great chemistry, great character. Our goals would be to keep everybody -- the coaching staff, the players -- together and hopefully improve next year. We all feel like we've got something going here.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Great
  • Character
  • Together

• Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Relationship
  • Stranger
  • Permanent

• We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Pretty

• If things happen it's because God has prepared me. God has great things for us. If it's God's will that I be there, there I will be.

  

  Kaka
  • Great
  • God

• To Nobody, then, will I write my Journal! since to Nobody can I be wholly unreserved, to Nobody can I reveal every thought, every wish of my heart, with the most unlimited confidence, the most unremitting sincerity, to the end of my life!

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Heart

• The fact is I never was too bright in school. I just barely graduated. I had a D- average. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do principals make a month?

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • School
  • Principals
  • D-average

• There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Way
  • Heaven
  • Wealth

• Users of marijuana become STIMULATED as they inhale the drug and are LIKELY TO DO ANYTHING. Most crimes of violence in this section, especially in country districts are laid to users of that drug.

  

  William Randolph Hearst
  • Country
  • Violence
  • Drug

• My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Community
  • Parent
  • Influence

• Don't let the world around you defeat the belief within you.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • World
  • Belief

• Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Remember
  • Traitor
  • Intend

• There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Different
  • Direction
  • Speed

• And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

  

  C.P. Cavafy
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Want

• And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Faults
  • Jealousy
  • Jealous

• This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Book
  • Technology
  • Complement

• The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.

  

  Naum Gabo
  • Shapes