Georges Seurat Quotes

The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless

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• We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Powerful

• If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • You
  • Drama
  • Boring

• The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Believe
  • Speak
  • Soccer

• India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • World
  • Country
  • May

• Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

  

  Little Richard
  • Rock
  • Guitar
  • Bass

• All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Lonely
  • Loneliness

• I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos. I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Almost
  • Nickname
  • Tagged

• When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• Our Land is alive, Esperanza...This whole valley breathes and lives...He picked up a handful of earth and studied it. Did you know that when you lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe? That you can feel its heart beating.

  

  Pam Muñoz Ryan
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Earth

• Nothing takes God by surprise. He knows the future and can therefore guide us through its trackless ways.

  

  W. T. Purkiser
  • God
  • Future
  • Way

• From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Life
  • Living

• I don't like venison or sushi - I don't want to eat what some people think are 'luxurious' foods.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • People
  • Foods
  • Venison

• Serena Williams [ispires me]. The first time I met her, she was like, "We should hang out and go to dinner," and I'm like, "Uh, yeah! If you insist."

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Time
  • She
  • Firsts

• I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • People
  • Cool
  • Worry

• The nature of things is to have no nature; it is their non-nature that is their nature. For they have only one nature: no-nature.

  

  Nagarjun
  • Nature

• In a speech at the just-concluded G20 summit in London, President Obama urged Americans not to let their fears crimp their spending. It would be unwise, he argued, for Americans to let the fear of job loss, lack of savings, unpaid bills, credit card debt or student loans deter them from making major purchases. According to the president, 'we must spend now as an investment for the future'....instead of saving for the future, we must spend for the future.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • President
  • Students
  • Loss

• A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Done
  • Rest
  • Body

• Now it's been fifteen years, nine games, and an enormous blast to undertake. If it were my choice, I would do this role forever. To hear anyone else's voice coming from Snake's battered throat, makes me a little ill, to be honest.

  

  David Hayter
  • Choice
  • Honest
  • Role

• You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Up
  • Song
  • Words

• If someone is critiquing the actual technique involved, that’s a whole other story. Mainly a lot of music critics have a tendency to just say they don’t like it.

  

  Boney James
  • Music
  • Story
  • Critics

• The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury, the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.

  

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
  • Teacher
  • Wonderful
  • Judgment

• The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless

  

  Georges Seurat
  • Critics
  • Pointless
  • Dots