Karl Blossfeldt Quotes

The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form.

Karl Blossfeldt

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• I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Friends
  • Kind
  • Doing

• The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Life
  • Change
  • Blind

• I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Age
  • Me
  • Stop

• Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Kid
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• I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Long
  • Myself
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• When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Attention

• Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • See
  • Relationships

• I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Idea
  • Rich
  • Authentic

• History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • History
  • Never
  • Go

• If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Want
  • You
  • Going

• My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • King

• I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Nature

• I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Long
  • Active
  • Conservation

• A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Always
  • Italy

• I have been traveling to every corner of the great state of Florida. I've met some great people and we've had an honest discussion about the failures of Washington.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • People
  • Great
  • Great People

• There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Doubt

• I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Youth
  • Arrogance

• I actually started modeling in Ethiopia, because that's where I grew up, and I started out by just doing little fashion shows for school, and I liked it so much that I started pursuing it.

  

  Liya Kebede
  • Up
  • School
  • Fashion

• Life is such a tragicomedy.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life

• After I finished my degree in India in 1980, I came to the U.S. to get a master's, and I was teaching quantum physics to freshmen. As I got my bearings as to what goes on in labs, I understood that to teach, you have to learn.

  

  Dinesh Paliwal

• The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form.

  

  Karl Blossfeldt
  • Fashion
  • Form
  • Artistic