Edward Hopper Quotes
on the question 'Why selecting certain subjects over others': I do not exactly know, unless it is that I believe them his chosen subjects to be the best mediums for a synthesis of my inner experience.
Edward Hopper
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When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.
Hans Matheson
Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
Sam Abell
Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
Ines de La Fressange
We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
Zac Brown Band
My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
Sabine Baring-Gould
America is addicted to wars of distraction.
Barbara Ehrenreich
I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
Jay London
Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and so far as we pour into all our schools the songs, the poems, and literature of mercy toward these lower creatures, just so soon and so far shall we reach the roots not only of cruelty, but of crime.
George Thorndike Angell
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
Archibald MacLeish
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
on the question 'Why selecting certain subjects over others': I do not exactly know, unless it is that I believe them his chosen subjects to be the best mediums for a synthesis of my inner experience.
Edward Hopper
