Larry Rivers Quotes

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

Larry Rivers

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• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Attention

• He that is jealous is not in love.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• My husband is not a jealous person in any way.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Way
  • Husband
  • Jealous

• For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Relationship
  • Person
  • Jealous

• I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • People
  • Press
  • Envious

• Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Up
  • Stop
  • Dance

• Jealous?" "Maybe." "No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Reason
  • Jealous
  • Ladies

• When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Time
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• God forbid, men should be jealous of knowledge as they are jealous of women.

  

  Umar
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Ideas
  • Original
  • Superiority

• Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Sense
  • Fantastic

• No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Angry
  • Jealous
  • Vengeful

• I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Generation

• Can I flirt with another guy to make him jealous?" "Oh no." She laughed, still holding my hands. "That will unleash something you can't handle. You don't mess with men that way.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Men
  • She
  • Guy

• Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Woman
  • Jealous
  • Fools

• Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Friends
  • Jealous
  • Mother Loves

• Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Strong
  • Regard
  • Jealous

• The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Dog
  • Mad
  • Jealousy

• O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge! Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss I carried from thee, dear, and my true lip Hath virgined it e'er since.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Long
  • Sweet
  • Revenge

• He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her--while he was jealous of her--while he renounced her--he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Loved
  • Jealous
  • Blamed

• What he Michael Jackson did was he allowed us, through his voice and his instrument, to see a glimpse of the heaven that he himself was denied. That sacrifice was the ultimate source of redemption that he gave to us.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Heaven
  • Sacrifice
  • Ultimate

• When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.

  

  Michel Martelly
  • People
  • Positive
  • Happen

• Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

  

  Larry Rivers
  • Jealous
  • Painters
  • Envious