Painting And Organizing Quotes & Sayings

Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception ... as film is able to do today ... And while efforts have been made to present paintings to the masses in galleries and salons, this mode of reception gives the masses no means of organizing and regulating their response. Thus, the same public which reacts progressively to a slapstick comedy inevitably displays a backward attitude toward Surrealism. — Walter Benjamin

You can tell me anything, her eyes say, because I will see the beauty in everything you say. — Rene Denfeld

Here's how I define "stuff": anything you have allowed into your psychological or physical world that doesn't belong where it is, but for which you haven't yet determined what, exactly, it means to you, with the desired outcome and the next action step. — David Allen

Oh, God ... you're so beautiful," I said in a weak voice, my head enchanted. He smiled at me and turned to the thin, elderly lady next to him whose skin seamed with wrinkles."She must still have a fever," Victor said, fighting a smile, which just made him even more breathtaking. — A.B. Whelan

I believe the Constitution matters: that it's not just a few pieces of paper. — Kevin McCarthy

Whenever I walk the street and see people ready to get with it, that's my reward. — Malcolm X

I got ramblin', I got ramblin' on my mind. I got ramblin', I got ramblin' all on my mind. Hate to leave my baby, but you treats me so unkind. — Robert Johnson

I love that aspect of sports where you can see what kind of work, how much work, an athlete's been doing by how her body is carved. — Diana Nyad

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give. — Kirk Douglas

What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history. — Imre Kertesz