Olitski Paintings Quotes & Sayings

[E]ven I know that being a parent is awful ninety-five percent of the time ... As far as I can tell, it's that last five percent that keeps the human race from dying out. Four parts blinding terror, one part perfection. It's like mainlining heroin. One taste of life on that edge and you're hooked. — Kimberly McCreight

Her hair was full of lights — Anais Nin

I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up. — Jules Olitski

I've done a show at the Largo Theater called The 'Thrilling Adventure Hour.' We read, like, radio teleplays. It's a send-up of radio dramas from the '30s and '40s. We just did a Kickstarter for that so that we can do a web series and a concert film. — Paget Brewster

That's what I like about watching a movie: you enter an imagined world that's more interesting, more engaging than your own. Or less painful than your own. — Nick Cave

If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done. — Julia Child

Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future. — David Gemmell

Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are. — Shauna Niequist

Imagine that you have to break someone's arm. — Hugh Laurie

I worked like a crazyman. I worked day and night, often days and nights at a time - without sleep. Gallons of coffee kept me awake; the paintings kept me fired up. — Jules Olitski

I'm operating on Tiny Teddies and hope — Melissa Keil

The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin