Hopps Quotes & Sayings

My grandfather was originally from the south of China before he emigrated to Malaysia pre-World War II. And I wanted to learn more about the history of the country of my ancestors. I knew I wanted a narrative set in contemporary Beijing. I was really interested in the effect of the rapid social and economic change on ordinary citizens in China. — Susan Barker

For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps ran it. At that time, art was taken very seriously in terms of being an artist, and not as a profession. — Billy Al Bengston

Diana: You are everything we dreamed you would one day become. Life is the strong warp of time. Death is only the weft. It will be because of your children, and your children's children, that I will live forever. Dad P.S. Every time you read "something is rotten in the state of Denmark" in Hamlet, think of me. — Deborah Harkness

Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry. — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

He framed a question inwardly to his vanity: 'Will this be tougher than I thought? — Soseki Natsume

They let us be, here, in the cage of our ignorance. — Ursula K. Le Guin

You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own. — Price Pritchett

The triumph of justice is the only peace. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know, with almost superhuman abilities. A large part of the National army, for instance, and most of the press of the country, clothed General Lee with just such qualities, but I had known him personally, and knew that he was mortal; and it was just as well that I felt this. — Ulysses S. Grant