Parmigianino Paintings Quotes & Sayings

I have tried to draw the human effigy (and all the other subjects dealt with in my paintings) in an immediate and effective way without any reference to the aesthetic. — Jean Dubuffet

Now people are so concerned with virtue and innocence that they are blinded to the fact that when people get together, sex happens. We are held by societal standards that the body needs to be covered up and that we need to speak in prim and proper tones and words. Why, back in my day, clothing was optional! If you didn't want to wear trousers, you didn't have to! It was okay to go out and for everyone to see your( ... )dedication to freeing your spirit from the confines of rigid morals and ethics that had no bearing on who we were as individuals and as a whole. — T.J. Klune

There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike. — Faith Baldwin

Shadows are little pieces of night that follow us around in the day. — Obie Scott Wade

Media is a big problem around the world, it's powerful and can abuse its power. — Julian Assange

[On the propulsive force of rockets] One part of fire takes up as much space as ten parts of air, and one part of air takes up the space of ten parts of water, and one part of water as much as ten parts of earth. Now powder is earth, consisting of the four elementary principles, and when the sulfur conducts the fire into the dryest part of the powder, fire, and air increase ... the other elements also gird themselves for battle with each other and the rage of battle is changed by their heat and moisture into a strong wind. — Vannoccio Biringuccio

Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel. — Iyanla Vanzant

Having a child is the best thing that could happen. — Pink

I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone. — Richard Bach

Commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you failed the IQ test. — Bob Costas

Never leave fish to find fish. — Moses

Being a mom has changed me forever. — Ciara

These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace. — Ben Harper

A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in each moment. I believe it would be evident that for the person who was fully open to his new experience, completely without defensiveness, each moment would be new. — Carl Rogers

The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton. — Charlie Rose