Elizabeth Catlett Quotes

I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.

Elizabeth Catlett

• Art
• Service
• Create
• Reflect
• Liberation

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• Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Country
  • Freedom

• The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Family
  • Society

• The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Person

• I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Up
  • World
  • Creative

• Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Painting
  • Environmental

• Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Speak
  • Name
  • Grass

• September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Own
  • Tragedy
  • September

• I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Attention

• Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people should, by and large, be reasonably hedged, or they should borrow more in domestic currency rather than foreign currency.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • People
  • Long
  • Run

• I am permanently relaxed.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Relaxed

• My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Mind
  • Generation
  • Most

• What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • King
  • Prison
  • Him

• Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Creation

• Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • World
  • Single

• Tell Père Tanguy to send me some paints. What I need most are ten tubes of white, two of chrome yellow, one bright red, one brown lac, one ultramarine, five Veronese green, one cobalt j I have on hand only one tube of white ... I expect to begin to paint again from nature, and I need the colors.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Nature
  • Hand
  • Red

• In brief, when women batter, men’s first priority is to support the women and help them change; when men batter, women’s first priority is to escape the men and put them in prison.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Help

• Some chick came up to me and said something, so I kicked her in the box and shoved her.

  

  Avril Lavigne
  • Up

• He had discharged his destiny; now, perhaps, he could begin to live.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Live
  • Destiny

• Hillary Clinton means devastation. It means world instability.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • World

• Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of others honoring their sacred and proven masculinity.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Men
  • Money
  • Respect

• If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.

  

  Neal Boortz
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Support

• Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Art
  • Disease
  • Obstacles

• I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.

  

  Elizabeth Catlett
  • Art
  • Service
  • Create