Adnan Quotes

#1. It wasn't just Adnan being indicted at this grand jury proceeding, it wasn't just him being prosecuted. His faith, his ethnicity, his community--they were all on trial.

Rabia Chaudry

#2. The only exception was my mother, who unabashedly took up for Adnan, fought with anyone who had anything negative to say about him, never stopped talking about him with Aunty Shamim, and prayed for him with the intensity of a thousand burning suns. I

Rabia Chaudry

#3. I write what I see; I paint what I am.

Etel Adnan

#4. Once I put down a color, I never cover it up. If you are born a musician, why become a banker?

Etel Adnan

#5. If you aren't here your heart won't break in the same way.

Etel Adnan

#6. Hey! I'm talkin' to you, feta bread!

Turkey

#7. The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

Etel Adnan

#8. QUOTES BOUQUET: You Have To Fight Through Some Bad Days To Earn The Best Days Of Your Life

Adnan

#9. Mount Tamalpais became my house. For Cezanne, Sainte-Victoire was no longer a mountain. It was an absolute. It was painting.

Etel Adnan

#10. The intelligence of the heart bypasses the intellect in the head which works on assumptions and requires a lot of thinking and confusion and makes a person tired and weak. But, the heart intelligence is not only direct and to the point, it also gives you energy, vitality and strength.

James Dillehay

#11. Consciousness has an inner depth at every stage, and is not something that emerges at some stage down the line. Forms of consciousness emerge as forms of energy/matter, but consciousness itself is simply alongside all along, as the principal reality of every form.

Adnan Al Adnani

#12. If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

Adnan Pachachi

#13. QUOTES BOUQUET: Three Things You Should Never Sacrifice: Family, Heart And Dignity

Adnan

#14. The Army can be family. The Army can be religion.

Adnan Sarwar

#15. Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.

Etel Adnan

#16. This contest between the secular and religious visions of government is really the main choice to be made. It won't be decided in one election, but it is a basic choice between an open and progressive Iraq and one that is backward and continues to fall behind.

Adnan Pachachi

#17. Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint ... Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, rapid - at least in my case.

Etel Adnan

#18. There is in Ammiel Alcalay's work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.

Etel Adnan

#19. I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.

Adnan

#20. Places are part of nature, of the bigger picture. We are interrelated. When we contemplate them in their own right, they can sometimes change our lives; they can become spiritual experiences.

Etel Adnan

#21. An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.

Adnan Pachachi

#22. Once upon a time, time was in the hands of the poor. Those who sensibly, reasonably, and firmly held it. Extravagance is only today and tomorrow.

Mona Adnan

#23. I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.

Etel Adnan

#24. I love Nicolas de Stael particularly, and my work can remind people of him. But looked at attentively, our works are not similar at all.

Etel Adnan

#25. Colours exist for me as entities in themselves, as metaphysical beings.

Etel Adnan

#26. I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.

Adnan Pachachi

#27. Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.

Adnan Pachachi

#28. My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.

Etel Adnan

#29. Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you.

Etel Adnan

#30. QUOTES BOUQUET: The Brightest Future Will Always Be Based On A Forgotten Past ...

Adnan

#31. I love rains which carry desires
to
oceans.

Etel Adnan

#32. Life teach you lessons and those lessons are very painful.

Adnan Khan

#33. I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing more natural, as in how it is lived in the person. We don't separate thinking from feeling in real life, so why should we separate it in writing?

Etel Adnan

#34. Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.

Adnan Pachachi

#35. Its not a good idea to argue with ignorant people but sometime ignorance can't be ignored

Adnan Safi

#36. Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart.

Muna Adnan Naqi

#37. I always had a few people who liked what I did, and that was enough.

Etel Adnan

#38. I want to help Manchester United win the Premier League and become the best player in the world.

Adnan

#39. Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn't need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn't need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

Etel Adnan

#40. There is no understanding between me and this world
they don't understand me and i don't care them.

Adnan Khan

#41. We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.

Etel Adnan

#42. Morning. Vast. Imprecision. Fog has covered everything in gray
absolute. This has lasted. Doubt looms over the mind. Absence
is harder to accept than death.

Etel Adnan

#43. No power has ever came upon the heart, unless the very inner of ourselves allowed the same.

Adnan Mahmutovic

#44. It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.

Adnan Pachachi

#45. QUOTES BOUQUET: Hurting Someone With The Truth Is Better Than Making Them Happy With The Lie.

Adnan

#46. I think the Shiites want a theocracy.

Adnan Pachachi

#47. There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies.

Etel Adnan