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.
Quotes to Explore
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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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.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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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.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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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.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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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.
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I am permanently relaxed.
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My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
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What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
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Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
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For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that 'the right people' are the ones who have three virtues in common - humility, hunger, and people smarts.
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It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.
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Basically, I think society functions thanks to how certain key industries work - government, finance, healthcare, education, energy. Pretty much all of these have a huge impact on everything else.
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Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
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The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors it sees for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.
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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.
