Lipchitz Jacques Quotes & Sayings

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view. — Jacques Lipchitz

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. — Jacques Lipchitz

Secrets are like flowers buried under snow. Eventually they rise up and push through into the light. — Dacre Stoker

I like doing the mainstream, right-down-the-pike broad comedies as much as I like doing the kind of unorthodox different stuff. — Ryan Reynolds

I get offered: 'Here's a girl who's mad at another girl for having a wedding on the same day.' That'll be a big hit, but I don't want to do that. — Amy Heckerling

You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in families with morals and standards and integrity. — Whitney Houston

A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is concerned with. — Jacques Lipchitz

This too shall pass. Life has a way of going on, and you do your best to move with it. A broken heart heals. Like every wound, there's a scar, a memory, but it fades. Finally you realize that an hour has passed without your thinking about it, then a day ... — Kristin Hannah

We reject the teaching that the work of the Holy Spirit in regeneration is dependent upon the exercise of man's free will. — Anonymous

Almost every scene, I re-think as I'm about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time I'm changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things. — Chester Brown

I suppose no one is truly dead when we go on loving them. — Jill Bialosky

I am the most curious of all to see what will be the next thing that I will do. — Jacques Lipchitz

They (the people of Puerto Rico) are truly the sweetest people on earth. — Johnny Depp

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death. — Jacques Lipchitz

Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. — Marianne Williamson

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination! — Jacques Lipchitz

Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor. — Beth Moore

Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile. — Yotam Ottolenghi

But he (Nietzsche) never would be able to realize that he is like ordinary people and he should realize that too. For instance, if he were really a sage, he would say to himself "Go out into the street, go to the little people, be one of them and see how you like it, how much you enjoy being such a small thing. That is yourself." And so he would learn that he was not his own greatness. — C. G. Jung

I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all kinds of unorthodox expression, all kinds of daring in the handling of materials, and I preferred to surround myself with this type of art than with the great collectors' pieces. I had always in my mind that I was collecting for learning. — Jacques Lipchitz

ghostly forms of darkness in the heat mirage, — James Dashner

The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used. — Mortimer J. Adler

I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso. The next day these grapes appeared in a painting by Gris, this time in a bowl; and the day after, the bowl appeared in a painting by Picasso. — Jacques Lipchitz