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

• You can't forget that organizational success flows from the hearts and minds of the men and women you lead. Rather than treating your people as you'd like to be treated, treat them as they would like to be treated. Small gestures like opting for face-to-face meetings or sending personal notes can have an enormous impact on teams and their morale.

  

  Marillyn Hewson
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Fear attracts attack.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • Fear

• 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

• Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do other valuable things, but they are not going to fix the planet or cure cancer or get rid of malaria.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Important
  • May
  • Science

• 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

• We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.

  

  Jim Caviezel
  • Death

• 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

• On the page was exactly what I had written, but it was clearer, more immediate. The erasures, the transpositions, the small additions, and, in some way, her handwriting itself gave me the impression that I had escaped from myself and now was running a hundred paces ahead with an energy and also a harmony that the person left behind didn't know she had.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Energy
  • Harmony
  • Written

• I was interested in science or, at least, nature from an early age, learning the names of planets, cutting cartoons with facts about animals out of the newspaper and gluing them into a scrapbook, and, with a friend when I was five or six, trying to design a submarine.

  

  Martin Chalfie
  • Trying
  • Nature
  • Age

• 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