Hassam Quotes & Sayings

I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood. — Barack Obama

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. — Childe Hassam

I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole. — Childe Hassam

I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him. — Childe Hassam

You tried. That was all you could do. All any of us can do.... — Elizabeth Vaughan

it mattered less what your origins were, and more what work you were willing to do; how hard you'd fight for the men around you. — Alexandra Bracken

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are. — Childe Hassam

within the four walls of avalanches, I call out to Yeti.
Stomping my feet for warmth
on the snow
the snow eternal. — Wislawa Szymborska

The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted. — Childe Hassam

I can smell blood, Elena," Dmitri drawled, walking back into the room. "Are you trying to flirt? — Nalini Singh

It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret. — Jimmy Reid

He couldn't get a grip on his sudden fear: it slipped through the safety bars of his mind and threaded - wormed - into the shadowy pockets where nightmares grew. — Nick Cutter

No one has ever been given more loving and unconditional support than I have given by you. I love you too — Stephen Morgan

Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants. — B.F. Skinner

The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. — Childe Hassam

I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country. — Ralph Vaughan Williams

In your actor's heart, you know when you're playing well. Others may not always agree with you, but I'm always aware of when the scene is cooking or not. You have an instinct about that from years of doing scenes and plays, and I think it stands you in good stead even in the TV world. — Michael Emerson