Hans Arp Quotes

The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.

Hans Arp

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• A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to edge on the wall; that is, side to floor, for instance.

  

  Dan Flavin
  • Light
  • Wall
  • Edge

• Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Light
  • Things
  • Appreciated

• The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • People
  • Faith
  • Light

• It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Light
  • Evil
  • Dark

• I've shot a lot of pilots that have never seen the light of day, jobs that have fallen apart or gotten canceled, so I'm really weary about what contracts I sign and where I swear my loyalty to.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Light
  • Day
  • Loyalty

• Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• You can drive an SUV, but there's a balance. If you do that, maybe use energy-efficient light bulbs at home or just be conscious of switching off lights. If you can afford to drive an SUV, maybe you can afford to make a donation to a wind farm or plant some trees. It's all about balance.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Light

• A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • People
  • Children
  • House

• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Art
  • Light
  • Simplicity

• They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Up
  • Light
  • Start

• Now, I love painting. I love looking. I love the fact that they don't move. They constantly change with the light. They are sort of patient.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Love
  • Light
  • Change

• We've got our own daylight to get bad thoughts away, and we talk with that light - our star in our heart. We take away what's unimportant.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Heart
  • Bad
  • Light

• What I love about 'The Chew' is that we have these celebrities come on, and you get to see them in a different light, cooking or enjoying food, when we usually don't see them in that setting. So it's a lot of fun for their fans to see them be normal people and having that commonality of food.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Different
  • Love

• Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

  

  Saint Basil
  • May
  • Light
  • Fall

• I wish I could pull shorts off. My wife tells me that I just can't. But that's okay. I'm tall, I can do other things, like change light bulbs.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Light
  • Change
  • Wish

• I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Light

• I believe that I will represent this sport in the best light possible. I won't mess it up. I won't get myself in any trouble.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Light

• To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Page

• So, instead, I try to put in light and hope for the best.

  

  Ben Linder
  • Hope
  • Light

• Lord Byron, who was writing the third canto of Childe Harold, was the only one among us who put his thoughts upon paper. These, as he brought them successively to us, clothed in all the light and harmony of poetry, seemed to stamp as divine the glories of heaven and earth, whose influences we partook with him.

  

  Mary Shelley
  • Writing
  • Earth
  • Light

• I--love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb-- Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Mother
  • Light
  • Body

• I like nice clothes, whether they're dodgy or not.

  

  David Beckham
  • Nice

• I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Great
  • Music
  • Friends

• The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.

  

  Hans Arp
  • Light
  • Sculpture
  • Animal footprints