Arnulf Rainer Quotes

...the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely.

Arnulf Rainer

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• God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America.

  

  Ben Carson
  • God
  • Believe
  • America

• As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Science

• All as before: against the dining-room windows Beats the scattered windswept snow, And I have not changed either, But a man came to me. I asked: 'What do you want?' He replied: 'To be with you in Hell.' I laughed: 'Oh, you'll foredoom Us both to disaster.'

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Snow

• If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then I will not only drop my defenses and my hostility, but I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Real
  • Help
  • Society

• Character is power.

  

  Booker T. Washington
  • Character
  • Power

• Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Home
  • Theatre

• White is hands down my favorite color and the color I wear the most.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Color

• After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly where they were and to whom they were talking.

  

  David Grann
  • People
  • Remember
  • Memories

• I've learned to brush off many things.

  

  Katrina Bowden

• When I first discovered for myself the Celtic Twilight and read the earlier poems of Yeats and others, all was entirely incomprehensible to me. I groped through a mist of blurred meanings, stumbled through lines in which every accent seemed to be in the wrong place.

  

  Austin Clarke
  • Twilight

• I have a new book coming out, so I do movie, book, movie, book, movie, book, every place we go.

  

  Adriana Trigiani
  • Book
  • Movie

• I had a bunch of paintings around at my house, and someone said to me, 'Why don't you just put them on Instagram? Why don't you show people these?' And I didn't want to - it was just something else I would have to do. But eventually, I was like, 'What's the harm?' And the response was so insane!

  

  Alison Mosshart
  • People
  • Why
  • House

• There are people who didn't like 'The Departed,' you know?

  

  Kevin Connolly
  • People

• Musical success depends on how much you enjoy it and how much you are willing to put in. Luck must follow, too.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Success
  • Luck

• The freedom of the individual and his willingness to follow real leadership are at the core of America’s strength.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Real
  • America
  • Freedom

• I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

  

  George H. W. Bush
  • Happy
  • House

• It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them - in which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Real
  • Case

• No doubt men may easily think too little of God the Father, and God the Spirit, but no man ever thought too much of Christ.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Men
  • May

• I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that,though. You tweak yourself,looking for more love, less lust, more compassion, less jealousy. You keep tweaking, keep adjusting those knobs until you can no longer find the original settings. In some sense,the original settings are exactly what I'm looking for-a return to the easygoing guy i was before my world got complicated, the nice guy who took things as they came and laughed so hard the blues would blow away in the summer wind.

  

  Bill Withers
  • World
  • Trying
  • Guy

• As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

  

  William Hague
  • Strong
  • Shadow
  • Accepting

• The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one another.

  

  William Hurrell Mallock
  • Expectations
  • Clouds
  • Landscape

• ...the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely.

  

  Arnulf Rainer
  • Reworking
  • Overpainting