Cairncross Soviet Quotes & Sayings

I don't like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who's heavily involved in contemporary art, they'd say the same thing. If you go to a biennale, you don't expect to like much of it. — Tom Rachman

My aim is to make you look the best you can and if that means a little bit of internal pulling and hoisting up, then so be it. — Bruce Oldfield

For me personally, there's too much fashion around in this world. — Dries Van Noten

I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will always stand out. And so the galleries began to hang my work in their best rooms, always in the middle, because my painting was attractive. It was precise. It was 'finished'. — Tamara De Lempicka

Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content. — Hermann Hesse

Now the dressing-room full of RSC hierarchy. Suddenly Trevor Nunn pushes his way through and 'Trevs' me. I've heard a lot about this 'Trevving', but never had it done to me. From what I'd heard, a 'Trev' is an arm round your shoulder and a sideways squeeze. But this 'Trev' is a full frontal hug, so complete and so intimate that the dressing-room instantly clears, as if by suction. I'm left alone in the arms of this famous man wondering whether it's polite to let go. — Antony Sher

Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape. — Allan Gurganus

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight. — Erwin Rommel

Probably the greatest need in the Church today is a body of men who are absolutely devoted, every selfish purpose and plan given up, to the one great end of magnifying the Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of the nation. — Wilbur Moorehead Smith

It's great to be in a room full of young people ... The average age of the Senate, I think, is death. — Aaron Schock

Fate, suffering, changing, expected outcomes, killing dreams, rupturing hearts and hopes, Fate blanks the disappointment in my chest with suffering, then slaps me right across the face with it. — YellowBella

A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is concerned with. — Jacques Lipchitz

Tell me about your project." "It's a surprise," I said loudly over the siren. "I don't like surprises." No surprise there. — Jennifer Echols