Clemente Orozco Quotes & Sayings

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can. — Thomas Merton

Rapture is costly; it usually means you are overlooking consequences. — Sherry Turkle

Serbia has shown enough patience, but it has also sent a clear and strong message that the law must be respected and that no one is stronger than the state. — Ivica Dacic

Karl Marx got a bum rap. All he was trying to do was figure out how to take care of a whole lot of people. Of course, socialism is just "evil" now. It's completely discredited, supposedly, by the collapse of the Soviet Union. I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to communist China now, which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are. You talk about the collapse of communism or the Soviet Union. My goodness, this country collapsed in 1929. I mean it crashed, big time, and capitalism looked like a very poor idea. — Kurt Vonnegut

It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater. — Edward Albee

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe. — Jose Clemente Orozco

Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as one feels them in the moment of speaking; in having the temerity to proclaim what one believes to be true without fear of the consequences. If one were to await the possession of the absolute truth, one must be either a fool or a mute. If the creative impulse were muted, the world would then be stayed on its march. — Jose Clemente Orozco

Clarity depends on contrast. In — Daniel H. Pink

In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the point of departure, the first cause of the plastic construction, and it is always present all the time as energy creating matter. The stories and other literary associations exist only in the mind of the spectator, the painting acting as the stimulus. — Jose Clemente Orozco

Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth. — George Sand

Pick a profession that will give you enough money to give you economic freedom. It is nice to pick a career that really taxes your mind. Use your mind in new and creative ways. You will find that your mind will develop and become stronger. — Frederick Lenz

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines. — Jose Clemente Orozco

Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was a service it provided for free. — Douglas Adams

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were. — Sarah Dessen

Bummer,' said Ira, his new word for "I must remain as neutral as possible" and "Your mother's a whore. — Lorrie Moore

Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries? — Ogwo David Emenike

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo. — Jose Clemente Orozco

Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos? — Jose Clemente Orozco

Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion. — Jose Clemente Orozco

The Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts is a handsome building, which takes its cues from the riverside Biedermeier villa next to it, and it is well-integrated into an overall scheme for a group of small museums. — Martin Filler

Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest it should be found out. And out of meanness and selfishness and lying flow love and joy and peace beyond anything that can be imagined. — Rose Macaulay

In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things that we have left undone and I suffer premonitions confirm suspicions of the holocaust to come. — Roger Waters

Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang? — Jose Clemente Orozco