Dennis Oppenheim Quotes

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.

Dennis Oppenheim

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• I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Connection

• It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Year

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Good
  • Difficult
  • Solitude

• I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Myself

• We feel and know that we are eternal.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Eternal

• I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Understand
  • Tea
  • Anger

• People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • People
  • Question
  • Supposed

• I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Day
  • Breakfast
  • Eating

• Female clothing seems to be extremely difficult and almost like a puzzle for a man to take off. But I think if you get there, you win. A kilt is the complete opposite. The kilt is so easy to take off.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Man
  • Win
  • Puzzle

• Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Most
  • Failed
  • Some

• David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Style
  • Boy
  • Gay

• If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Religion
  • Beliefs
  • Fast

• For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Important
  • American
  • History

• I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Want
  • Past
  • Possibilities

• It is my belief that action under this section should be suspended until the Congress can reconsider the entire question in the light of the experience that has been developed since its enactment.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Experience
  • Light
  • Action

• People have the right to say whatever they want.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • People

• The last two times I went to spring training, I had to win a job, and if I didn't get off to a blazing start, I'm on the bench. Now, I've proven myself, so it's not essential that I get off to a real good start.

  

  Eric Davis
  • Good
  • Real
  • Job

• I can't miss an episode of 'The Apprentice'. It is car-crash T.V. Sometimes I find myself hiding behind a cushion.

  

  April Pearson
  • Car

• Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth. - The judge

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Judge

• Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!

  

  Kaspar Hauser
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Kill

• I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Up
  • Love
  • Just

• There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for 20 years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret record.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Politics

• [The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.

  

  Dennis Oppenheim
  • Communication
  • Necessary
  • Radical