Feininger Art Quotes & Sayings

But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television. — Jhonen Vasquez

There is something about the mental act of thanksgiving that seems to carry the human mind far beyond the region of doubt into the clear atmosphere of faith and trust, where "all things are possible." — H. Emilie Cady

He was one of the most sincere tree-lovers I ever knew. About twenty years before his death he made choice of a plot in the Yosemite cemetery on the north side of the Valley, not far from the Yosemite Fall, and selecting a dozen or so of seedling sequoias in the Mariposa grove he brought them to the Valley and planted them around the spot he had chosen for his last rest. The ground there is gravelly and dry; by careful watering he finally nursed most of the seedlings into good, thrifty trees, and doubtless they will long shade the grave of their blessed lover and friend. — John Muir

Don't miss your life. — Valerie Harper

No, I'm not an 'anarchist.'
Fuck your political ideology. — B. Diehl

The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water. — Lyonel Feininger

The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that the imaginative photographer will compete with the imaginative painter. Painting must return to the natural world from time to time for renewal of the artistic vision. The key sector of renewal of vision today is the new vistas revealed by science. Here photography, which is not only art but science also, stands on the firmest ground. — Andreas Feininger

Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art. — Andreas Feininger

The mind is like a lake lashed into waves. Make the water of the lake clear and calm. — Swami Prabhavananda

Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons. — Pauline Kael

Go now, run along and tell your Xerxes that he faces free men here, not slaves — Frank Miller

It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals. — Benjamin Graham

It is therefore recommended ... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor. — Samuel Adams