Carter Ratcliff Quotes

What is art?... From a strictly logical point of view, a question with no clear answer comes under the suspicion of being meaningless. But a strictly logical point of view never shows us much about art...

Carter Ratcliff

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• We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • World
  • Believe
  • Economy

• My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Parents
  • Support
  • Easy

• One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Right

• If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Life
  • Me
  • Army

• You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Find
  • Sugar

• That's what technology does to you - makes you lazy but allows you to innovate.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • You
  • Technology
  • Lazy

• I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Fun
  • Friend
  • Working

• I'm a pretty big news junkie.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Pretty
  • News
  • Big

• I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Work
  • Very
  • Worth

• I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Music
  • Art
  • Day

• I don't take a scene or word for granted.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Word
  • Scene
  • Take

• People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You waste those two months - and then they tell you, 'You're not who I was dating the first month!'

  

  Manny Montana
  • People
  • Up
  • Dating

• Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Violence

• I didn't go to the cinema a lot when I was young.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Young
  • Go
  • Cinema

• As an actress, I value and rely on peaceful self-expression, not only in my daily life, but also in my professional work. This is particularly true, as my commitment to the promotion of human rights is an integral part of my calling as an artist.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Work
  • True

• Since I was 21, I have not been able to sleep past 9 A.M.; I just want to get up and do something.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • Want
  • Past

• It's not very fun to do spectroscopy.

  

  Garik Israelian
  • Fun
  • Very

• It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Long
  • Die
  • Eyes

• That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

  

  Joseph Barbera

• It's much harder, much more work to be your own artist, and it's hard for me to just want to do one thing. I love doing my own music, but I really have to get into a groove with it, which has been difficult over the last few years because I've had so much great work coming in.

  

  Gail Ann Dorsey
  • Work
  • Artist
  • Difficult

• I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.

  

  K. Flay
  • Relationship
  • Sleep
  • Never

• Of course, your voice always sounds better in the shower for some reason, maybe it's just the octaves or, I don't know, the water, I have no idea.

  

  David Boreanaz
  • Water

• What is art?... From a strictly logical point of view, a question with no clear answer comes under the suspicion of being meaningless. But a strictly logical point of view never shows us much about art...

  

  Carter Ratcliff
  • Art
  • Never
  • Shows