Edward Betts Quotes

The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with something that lies outside the painting itself.

Edward Betts

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• Compulsion
• Involvement
• Obsessions

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• I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.

  

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• Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.

  

  Adam Hamilton
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• If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.

  

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• The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

  

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• I've never been one for crushing on famous people.

  

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• I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.

  

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• We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player constantly to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by this idea of solitude.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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• I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.

  

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• I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
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• Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.

  

  Barry Silbert
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• Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.

  

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• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
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• For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).

  

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• I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.

  

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• I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.

  

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• Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• When we are all together, we will have a future that is far greater than whatever we could do separate from one another.

  

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• Having three brothers in the league has been real fun for the whole family, and we're just trying to keep it going.

  

  Chris Gronkowski
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• I was so enchanted with the open possibilities and the power of being able to choose my part. Who was the child now? I decided I’d be a Japanese businessman because it would be less predictable. Even when I was alone, I was so filled with excitement and laughter at the thought of my task. This was joyful children’s play!

  

  Piper Laurie
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• Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

  

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• When they would speak earlier, they would make fun of me. But if we had got 25 out of 26 Gujarat Lok Sabha seats also, I would have got a beating. But I thank Gujarat for the 26-seat BJP clean sweep. I was told, in Gujarat, almost 60 percent of people voted for BJP, That is a new misaal paradigm in India.

  

  Narendra Modi
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• To me, drone use is a moral issue.

  

  Marianne Williamson
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• Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.

  

  David Salle
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• The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with something that lies outside the painting itself.

  

  Edward Betts
  • Painting
  • Compulsion
  • Involvement