Oppenheim Quotes & Sayings

Most of my work comes from ideas. I can usually do only a few versions of each idea. Land Art and Body Art were particularly strong concepts which allowed for a lot of permutations. But nevertheless, I found myself wanting to move onward into something else. — Dennis Oppenheim

Make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been. — Dennis Oppenheim

As we go marching, marching, we bring the greater days,
The rising of the women means the rising of the race.
No more the drudge and idler, ten that toil where one reposes,
But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and roses, bread and roses. — James Oppenheim

[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication. — Dennis Oppenheim

A faith like Lincoln's would transform the world! — James Oppenheim

Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven. — Dennis Oppenheim

The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism. — Dennis Oppenheim

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet. — James Oppenheim

As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children, and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses! — James Oppenheim

Would you end war? Create great Peace. — James Oppenheim

Other married people have lived together and hated each other. Why shouldn't we? We may forget even to hate. — E. Phillips Oppenheim

So
Walter Arensberg,
Alfred Kreymborg,
Carl Sandburg,
Louis Untermeyer,
Eunice Tietjens,
Clara Shanafelt,
James Oppenheim,
Maxwell Bodenheim,
Richard Glaenzer,
Scharmel Iris,
Conrad Aiken,
I place your names here
So that you may live
If only as names,
Sinuous, mauve-colored names,
In the Juvenalia
Of my collected editions. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet. — James Oppenheim

They can only set free men free
And there is no need of that.
Free men set themselves free. — James Oppenheim

In 1945, Oppenheimer posited that what happened during the Trinity Test was due to 'Time Tunnels.' A 50-year 'time tunnel."

"So, in 1945, you could send a soldier 50 years back?"

"Exactly. Well, except for the fact that at the time we didn't know if we ever could deliberately send something or someone, but we were already sure it was a one-way trip. — Francis Barel

We age inevitably:
The old joys fade and are gone:
And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear. — James Oppenheim

Pooh!" she exclaimed. "Fancy asking a woman to be reasonable! — E. Phillips Oppenheim

Every notion is born along with its form. I make reality of ideas as they come into my head — Meret Oppenheim

Nobody will give you freedom. You have to take it. — Meret Oppenheim

Quick as a hummingbird ... she darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly dipping into the flowers of my heart. — James Oppenheim

Man's the bad child of the universe — James Oppenheim

You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.) — Dennis Oppenheim

To be a god
First I must be a god-maker:
We are what we create. — James Oppenheim

Freedom is not something you are given, but something you have to take. — Meret Oppenheim