Alfaro Siqueiros Quotes & Sayings

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. — George Bernard Shaw

I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehow
less likely to happen. — Emily Giffin

Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh. — Thomas Watson

Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment of the universe, and all things contained in the heaven, the sea, and the earth, that they might be consecrated as God in opposition to God." All things, therefore, does human error worship, except the Founder of all himself. The images of those things are idols; the consecration of the images is idolatry. — Tertullian

The artist must paint as he would speak. I don't want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand. — David Alfaro Siqueiros

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious. — Honore De Balzac

Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings. — David Alfaro Siqueiros

We thought we had time. I waved but couldn't answer, because I was finally letting myself grin as wide as I'd wanted all afternoon, all evening, every sec of every minute with you, Ed. Shit, I guess I already loved you then. — Daniel Handler

Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune. — R. Buckminster Fuller

I want everything or nothing. A life for a life, taking one and giving up another without hesitation and beyond recall. Or else better have nothing! — Ivan Turgenev

The modern mind longs for the future as the medieval mind longed for Heaven. The great aim of modern life has been to improve the future - or even just to reach the future, assuming that the future will inevitably be better. — Wendell Berry

One of the things I'm adamant about as a bandleader is not micromanaging. I'm an advocate for the concept of allowing everyone to be fully vested in what they're doing, so everyone contributes whatever they're inspired to contribute. — Stefon Harris

If I hadn't had my children, I would have been discouraged a lot quicker. It would have been much more easy for me to say, "You know what, let the whole thing go. Have a good time, because these people, this place - it's just not worth it." You know? I can't do that anymore. I look into those eyes and they look at me so trustingly that I'm gonna make sure that [they're thinking], "Hey, you did a good thing bringing me into the world, daddy. I'm going to have a great life!" — David Bowie

As Carlyle put it - All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been - it is lying in matchless preservation in the pages of books. — Napoleon Hill

A godly man puts a kind interpretation upon providence. — Thomas Watson

You can't dwell in your past but move forward, look forward. That's it. — Caroline Wozniacki