Ernesto Neto Quotes

I always have a plan, but it’s like the plan for a journey. Once you’re on the road, you change things. If nothing changes, if you end up with something that’s just as you planned it, then you haven’t created art.

Ernesto Neto

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• People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Study

• Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Truth
  • Enough
  • Belief

• My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Son
  • Drums
  • Bass

• I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Critics
  • Reach
  • Regardless

• I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Water

• Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Good
  • Good Things

• We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Excellence

• I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Want
  • You
  • Living

• A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Like
  • Voice
  • Sound

• Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Game
  • Forever

• Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Movie
  • Books
  • Television

• Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Practice

• Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Men
  • Friends

• Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hand

• I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Money
  • Commercial
  • Hobby

• If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Work
  • Together
  • Day

• Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Sleep
  • Tired
  • Plan

• The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.

  

  Blaine Pardoe
  • World
  • Change
  • Create

• Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Cooking
  • Short

• Change your thoughts, and in the twinkling of an eye, all your conditions change. Your world is a world of crystallized ideas, crystallized words. Sooner or later, you reap the fruits of your words and thoughts.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • World
  • Words
  • Change

• Music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Reality

• I always have a plan, but it’s like the plan for a journey. Once you’re on the road, you change things. If nothing changes, if you end up with something that’s just as you planned it, then you haven’t created art.

  

  Ernesto Neto
  • Change
  • Things
  • Plan