Collages Quotes & Sayings

For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures. — Robert Motherwell

Collage is a demonstration of the many becoming the one, with the one never fully resolved because of the many that continue to impinge upon it. — Donald Kuspit

As long as you know, within yourself, that you're no better than anyone else out there, you're OK. — Nick Carter

I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags. — Haruki Murakami

You're one in a million, John Matthew, — J.R. Ward

I placed a bowl of herbs and ointments in the window of my bedroom, and let the scented breeze carry him away ... — Sherry Jones

I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes ... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage. — Sean Combs

While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell. — Hans Arp

I like to make collages - paper collages. — Rachel True

And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified. — Christo

I'm actually looking for a gallery, but the thing is some galleries just want to show the video work and some are just interested in the 2-D work. It has to be a gallery where I can do the 2-D collages, the video, and live performance, where it's not this weird conflict, where it can all move forward. — Kalup Linzy

I'm pretty lenient with myself about time - if I feel like taking photographs of small things inside ice cubes or making animal collages, I just do it. When I want to write, I write. It's all part of the same thing for me. — Matthea Harvey

First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out. This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations. — Jim Coleman

As the U.S. did during the Space Race, we must invest in our businesses and intellect to ensure America leads the clean energy economy of the future. As we all know, the best way to reduce our deficit and bring down our debt is by putting Americans back to work. — Paul Tonko

His theatre was the clouds, where no spectacle repeated itself. On land he was a foreigner. Land for him was stasis, and it pulled him into immobility, which was his image of death.
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I stick the collages on the wall and, if I still like them after a month or two, I make a painting. — James Rosenquist

I think people who sample are cheating. It is like people who do collages. Use all of your own stuff. — Bill Dixon

All of us fractured, awkward collages of experience wrapped tight to present a defensible face to the world. — Mark Lawrence

Directing is like putting together a collage. — Ethan Hawke

And maybe some people are like collages - no matter how broken or useless we felt, we were an essential part of the whole. We mattered. — Heather Demetrios

My eyes roved over the walls covered with my collages and prints of famous paintings. Magritte, Kandinsky, Kahlo. My origami shapes hung from fishing wire, dangling over my bed. They shivered in the slight breeze blowing through my open window. It was my own little escape pod, but none of it was enough tonight. — Heather Demetrios

I had collages in my bedroom when I was a teenager. — Brie Larson

I think doing dramas kind of wears on you. It's just intense. — Christine Ebersole

Imagination can help you reach into the heavens to grasp an idea, bring it down to earth, and make it work. — Walter Farley

I do not wish to criticize any system that can nourish people's spirits, but I find that a lot of New Age writing cherry-picks the attractive bits from the ancient traditions and makes collages of them; it usually excises the ascetic dimension. In general it is not rigorously thought out, but is what I would call "soft" thinking. — John O'Donohue

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable. — Andrei Codrescu

In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills and advanced degrees. — Andrew Ross Sorkin

The collages I never wanted to sell. I thought it was a very private thing, so I kept the collages. Then, in the end, I had a big collage in the Pinault Collection in Venice and the director of the [Centre] Pompidou said, "Did you make big collages like this in the '60s?" I said yes, so he came to the studio and said, "Let's make an exhibition in the Pompidou." — Erro

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations. — Ralph Nader

I got really excited about finding new ways of using video, and the immediacy is different, in a way, than painting and photography. The creativity comes with the editing. You can layer and cut and paste. I really love that it's like another form of making my smaller collages but in video form. — Mickalene Thomas