Antoni Tapies Quotes

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.

Antoni Tapies

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• To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

  

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• I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.

  

  Uday Kotak
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  • Focus
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• I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
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• I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.

  

  Mal Peet
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• I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

  

  J. Cole
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  • Money
  • Lose

• I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Think
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  • Just

• I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Success
  • Understanding

• I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Want
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  • Try

• 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Life
  • Time
  • Wish

• I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'

  

  Octavian Paler
  • Paradise
  • Reasons
  • Cruel

• It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • You
  • Win
  • Matter

• I was not really as good as I should have been.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Good
  • Should
  • Been

• The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
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• I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

  

  Eddie Floyd
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• I believe we're the party of small business.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Believe
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• I have very eclectic tastes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Very
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  • Eclectic

• The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.

  

  Leland Stanford
  • Political
  • Sex
  • Equality

• Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged! Kill every German - wipe them out!

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Women
  • Children
  • Moral

• I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Listening
  • Tired
  • Petty

• I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.

  

  Steve Valentine
  • Proud
  • Accent
  • Scottish

• Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Teaching
  • Distraction

• I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Political
  • Ideas
  • Moral