Grotjahn Quotes & Sayings

And under all this vast illusion of the cosmopolitan planet, with its empires and its Reuter's agency, the real life of man goes on concerned with this tree or that temple, with this harvest or that drinking-song, totally uncomprehended, totally untouched. And it watches from its splendid parochialism, possibly with a smile of amusement, motor-car civilization going its triumphant way, outstripping time, consuming space, seeing all and seeing nothing, roaring on at last to the capture of the solar system, only to find the sun cockney and the stars suburban. — G.K. Chesterton

Beware the beast, but enjoy the feast he offers. — Tuomas Holopainen

I think my masks reference artists who reference primitivism. They're not directly connected to tribal arts. I think they look more like third-grade art projects. — Mark Grotjahn

It's cleansing. If I hadn't been at work all the time, I would have been a lunatic. — Mason Currey

I got my first show at Blum & Poe because Paul McCarthy postponed his show, and they came to my studio and asked me if I could put together a show in two weeks. — Mark Grotjahn

I think, in effect, in most of the European countries, the total marginal tax rate is over 50 percent; that's to say, add on other taxes like VAT to the income tax. — James Mirrlees

To protect our country's economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must find a way to rein in out-of-control costs, provide quality, affordable health care choices to all, and make outrageous insurance industry abuses a thing of the past. — Michael Bennet

I'll have my way, in my own time / I'll have my say, my star will shine. — Noel Gallagher

I want my work to be accessible to people, — Jeff Koons

an eyebrow. "No worries, man. I wouldn't miss it for the world. — Melissa Foster

People don't ask Andre Agassi, 'You know you're the No. 1 tennis player in the world ... have you thought about polo?' — Rob Schneider

Insight occurs just because it is high time. — Martin Grotjahn

Actors are almost impossible to treat successfully. — Martin Grotjahn

I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists. — Jerry Saltz

To the rear, sir - he's lost his leg! — Mark Twain

I've got two girls, and they both make beautiful drawings. One of them really has a gift for the way that she colors around certain lines. — Mark Grotjahn

Laughter is taken as a sign of strength, freedom, health, beauty, youth, and happiness. — Martin Grotjahn

I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea. — P. J. O'Rourke

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them. — Barbara McClintock

Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap one another. — Jerry Saltz