El Lissitzky Quotes

The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people.

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• I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to fail, and that's the only way you can be unique. So when a director is confident enough in what they're doing, and they allow their actors to be brave and bring in stuff, the more likely it's going to work out okay.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Work
  • Unique
  • Brave

• I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did. But it's true, sometimes you see artists working for a designer or a brand on some specific project or taking care of their environment and making an amazing store.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Art
  • True
  • Relationship

• I love football, football is my life.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Life
  • Love
  • Football

• Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Government
  • Myself
  • Without

• My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Like
  • Fair
  • Bedroom

• Necessity has no law.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Law
  • Necessity

• Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You have to make your own decisions.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • You
  • Attention
  • Decisions

• Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Health
  • Risk

• It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Done
  • Guy
  • Cool

• I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Better
  • Because
  • Editorial

• If you're a comedian, you can change peoples lives for the better in much smaller increments - not their entire life, but for 15 minutes or a half hour.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Life
  • Change
  • Better

• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Animal
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• I am in the hands of Deori Maa. Every time I come to Ranchi, I visit her temple. I still remember my first visit.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Remember
  • Temple
  • Deori Maa

• Every day I'd say I look different. Sometimes I look really formal, sometimes I love the classic Stella McCartney, Chloe Sevigny and Gwyneth Paltrow thing. Other days I like being rock star and wearing leather jackets and studs. I love wearing Burberry - it's the perfect combination of formal and punky.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Different
  • Perfect
  • Rock

• Monterey was the Maraschino cherry on top of the Sundae that was the '60s. It was totally unprecedented, and the audience was unprecedented in their joy.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Joy
  • Cherry
  • Monterey

• We're encouraged that Mr. Harper appears to have taken some of our concerns into account. If Mr. Harper is serious about making this Parliament work, we will be open to working with him.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Work
  • Taken
  • Serious

• I think it means that we'll be able to track down the actual causes of disease, ... Most folks don't realize we don't know the cause of asthma, of heart disease, of diabetes or hypertension.

  

  Eric Lander
  • Disease
  • Folks
  • Asthma

• I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Kind
  • Artist
  • Talent

• I decided to start acting in my mid-twenties. I studied pre-med, and I have a bachelor's degree in Biology, so when I decided to pursue a different career, I got a lot of, 'What on earth are you doing?' But, I gave myself a year and thought, 'You know what, I'm going to just beat the odds.'

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Different
  • Career
  • Earth

• We've got to go back to their ballpark. We'll put this one behind us. We've been through too much this year not to. It hurts, but it's over. Move on.

  

  Craig Biggio
  • Over
  • Hurts
  • Behind

• The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people.

  

  El Lissitzky
  • Artist
  • Built
  • Exists