Clyfford Still Quotes

Through them his paintings I breathe again.

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• Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • People
  • Music
  • Live

• My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Up
  • Long
  • Night

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Life
  • Know
  • Ocean

• COPD includes chronic bronchitis, emphysema, or both. Over time, it makes it harder and harder to breathe because less air is able to flow in and out of the lungs.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Time
  • Air
  • Breathe

• When I'm not working, I prefer not to use any make-up so my skin can breathe. And I always moisturise.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Up
  • Working
  • Breathe

• Just let your skin breathe.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Breathe
  • Just
  • Skin

• I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Speech

• I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • City
  • Confidence
  • Breathe

• I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but it's to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • May
  • Character
  • Think

• Like all great minds that do not merely imagine Utopias, but actually advance humanity to a new epoch, he Jesus took the situation and material furnished to him by the past and molded that into a fuller approximation to the divine conception within him.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Great
  • Past
  • Jesus

• Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?

  

  Ralph Ellison

• Manners are of more importance than laws. The law can touch us here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation like that of the air we breathe in.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Law
  • Air
  • Breathe

• Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast, When husbands, or when lapdogs, breathe their last.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Breathe

• No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

  

  Edvard Munch
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act.

  

  Antonio Gramsci
  • Truth
  • Together

• The age of personal statues is gone. No personal statues shall be erected in the city or parks of Chandigarh. The city is planned to breathe the new sublimated spirit of art. Commemoration of persons shall be confined to suitably placed bronze plaques.

  

  Le Corbusier
  • Art
  • Age
  • City

• If I could only have you nearTo breathe a sigh or twoI would be happy just to hold the hands I loveOn this winters night with you

  

  Gordon Lightfoot
  • Happy
  • Night
  • Breathe

• I do not mean extended, to mean esthetic definition of space. For me, it is a matter of whether the canvas allows me to breathe or not – if the canvas soars into space or if it is earthbound. When it is earthbound it irritates me enormously. I would like to soar in a canvas.

  

  Lee Krasner
  • Space
  • Breathe
  • Canvas

• My presence isn't simply about "character" - I'm present in every part and particle of the thing, in the sound and rhythm of the sentences, in the shifting tones and the selection of details, in the comedy, the sadness, and the confusion. For the space of an essay, I'm the air you breathe, everywhere and nowhere. With a personal essay, I don't think you'd want it any other way. You ought to have the sense of an encounter, the impression of having met someone. In my essays, for better or worse, that someone is me.

  

  Charles D'Ambrosio
  • Character
  • Comedy
  • Breathe

• Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt - that is, they shared - all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Pain
  • Thought

• Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.

  

  John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Nature

• Part of the brilliance of Stieg Larsson's books is that they are so complex, so many different facets coming together.

  

  David Lagercrantz
  • Different
  • Together

• Through them his paintings I breathe again.

  

  Clyfford Still
  • Breathe