Agnes Martin Quotes
Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it. I want to draw a certain response like this.. ..that quality of response from people when they leave themselves behind, often experienced in nature, an experience of simple joy.. .My paintings are about merging, about formlessness.. .A world without objects, without interruption.Agnes Martin
Quotes to Explore
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
Rachel Cusk -
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
Damien Rice -
I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
Gary Carr -
I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
Calvin Johnson -
Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
Parker Posey
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I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
Rafe Spall -
Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
Lao Tzu -
Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
F. E. Smith -
Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
Talcott Parsons -
I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
Victoria Wood -
It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.
Taylor Lautner
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I was born free.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.
Nancy Kerrigan -
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
Manly Hall -
I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
Zooey Deschanel -
I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.
Ira Glass -
A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they're mental giants, but it's very limiting.
Larry Wilcox
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I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.
Candace Bushnell -
In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.
Daniel Dennett -
Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.
Adolf Galland -
You’d better come early son because I’ve got a lot of work to do on the property and don’t want to get behind.
R. M. Williams -
In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program.
Christian Lous Lange -
Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it. I want to draw a certain response like this.. ..that quality of response from people when they leave themselves behind, often experienced in nature, an experience of simple joy.. .My paintings are about merging, about formlessness.. .A world without objects, without interruption.
Agnes Martin