Nergens In Het Quotes & Sayings

A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ... " You're going to end up with a big green painting. — John Baldessari

Consider also the special word they used: survivor. Something new. As long as they didn't have to say human being. It used to be refugee, but by now there was no such creature, no more refugees, only survivors. A name like a number
counted apart from the ordinary swarm. Blue digits on the arm, what difference? They don't call you a woman anyhow. Survivor. Even when your bones get melted into the grains of the earth, still they'll forget human being. Survivor and survivor and survivor; always and always. Who made up these words, parasites on the throat of suffering! — Cynthia Ozick

The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all pretentiousness and attitudinizing. — Brenda Ueland

I try to be as independent as possible. — Dries Van Noten

I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back ... but God has a bigger shovel! — R. G. LeTourneau

Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I'll teach you differences'.
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'You'd be surprised' wouldn't be a bad motto either. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

For Chase, I accept dares, I'm learning to take chances. He makes me feel unafraid. — S.R. Grey

In the face of adversity you have three choices ... You can let it DEFINE you, let it DESTROY you or let it STRENGTHEN YOU! — Tanya Masse

Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts. — Jerry Bridges

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America. — Beatrice Wood