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

• Trying
• 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

• 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
  • Among
  • Misfits

• 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 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

• When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Work
  • Car

• If you're working out and taking care of your body, you don't really want the greasy food that makes you feel tired or blah. You actually crave the good stuff!

  

  Jenna Ushkowitz
  • Good
  • Food
  • Tired

• I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

  

  David Brock

• Both my parents were working-class and had dreams of making the world a better place. It's pretty powerful, being able to reflect back their beliefs.

  

  Neneh Cherry
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• What we in industry learned in dealing with people is that people do not work just for money and that if you are trying to motivate, money is not the most effective tool.

  

  Akio Morita
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• Instead of trying to still his fears he encouraged them, with that superstitious impression which clings to us all, that if we expect evil very strongly it is the less likely to come; . . .

  

  George Eliot
  • Trying
  • Evil

• In any situation, I'm going to be good.

  

  James Harden
  • Good

• 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