David Alfaro Siqueiros Quotes
Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.
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My cross earrings are a mini statement; I wear them every day! My whole dream is to be iconic, and the way you dress yourself is so important.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
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Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!
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Everyone knew I was anti-marriage. I'd spent my life saying it was something I neither wanted nor needed.
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If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.
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A lot of my friends they call me 'the therapist'. They come to me looking for advice. I must be doing something right because they keep coming back. But I'm not very good at kind of looking into my own world and trying to pick apart what is really wrong and fix those things. I like to kind of shy away from certain issues and turn away.
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The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.
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I don't know that I've ever been someone who's interested in existing on tour. I have a lot of interests and a lot of other things that excite me.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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However, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves; and then the picture, whether you choose the grand or beautiful, should be held up at its proper distance. Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty; and simplicity is essential to grandeur.
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I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.
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Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.
