Wolf Kahn Quotes

I'm always trying to get to a danger point in color, where color either becomes too sweet or it becomes too harsh, it becomes too noisy or too quiet, and at that point I still want the picture to be strong, forceful, and the carrier of everything that a painting has to have: contrast, drama, austerity.

Wolf Kahn

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• Strong
• Drama
• Painting
• Contrast
• Austerity

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• I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Important
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • People
  • Saints
  • Appointment

• Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Other
  • Misfits
  • Among

• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Being
  • Interdependence

• A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Best
  • Try
  • Performance

• I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Work
  • Me
  • Actor

• I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Know
  • Taken
  • Look

• Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Economy
  • Engine

• When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • May
  • King

• For a while, he was far better than the team around him, and he could give me fits..

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Team

• Chorus of Furies: We claim to be just and upright. No wrath from us will come stealthily to the one who holds out clean hands, and he will go through life unharmed; but whoever sins, as this man has, and hides his blood-stained hands, as avengers of bloodshed we appear against him to the end, presenting ourselves as upright witnesses for the dead.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Life

• As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.

  

  Joan Chen

• The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together.

  

  Martin Winterkorn
  • Together
  • Car

• Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.

  

  David Wain
  • Money
  • American
  • Lost

• I think we need to have competitive tax rates in order to create jobs in this country. And I think it should be fair.

  

  Kristi Noem
  • Country

• I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Women
  • Respect

• The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

  

  Euripides
  • Life
  • Happiest
  • Garnering

• The simple answer is I'd just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I'd be in some sort of military or government world of some sort.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • World
  • Trying
  • Family

• I'm a big fan of George Carlin's.

  

  Brian Van Holt

• I'm always trying to get to a danger point in color, where color either becomes too sweet or it becomes too harsh, it becomes too noisy or too quiet, and at that point I still want the picture to be strong, forceful, and the carrier of everything that a painting has to have: contrast, drama, austerity.

  

  Wolf Kahn
  • Trying
  • Strong
  • Drama