Top 93 Aleksandra Quotes
#1. There was no jealousy on the part of a new spouse over the love or affection a man or woman shared with a former spouse. It was considered a blessing to have had such loves in one's life.
Aleksandra Layland
#2. All our emotions are real, but one has to be quite cautious with what supports their reality.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#3. I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man has been everywhere or affected everything in nature.
Aleksandra Mir
#4. And do you see how beautiful and graceful the birds are when they are flying and soaring? The ground has many comforts for them to enjoy... But in the sky they are truly what a bird is meant to be. So it is with the human heart.
Aleksandra Layland
#5. The space program caused so much future-thinking in culture. People who couldn't go to the Moon were building space-fantasy chairs and corsets and hairdos and anything that they could put their hands on.
Aleksandra Mir
#6. We had little but we didn't know we had little. It seemed to us that we had much and we were very content.
Aleksandra Layland
#7. I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to the most exotic faraway places I possibly can, only to find the closest things to me when I get there.
Aleksandra Mir
#9. You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with.
Aleksandra Mir
#10. Grief, as in everything, should be experienced in moderation. There is a time to grieve heavily but then there is a time to set it aside and become happy in life again.
Aleksandra Layland
#11. My purpose isn't to be confrontational. My purpose is to find out about the world and play myself against it to the extent that it is even conceivable.
Aleksandra Mir
#12. I'm not trying to put you down, but even if I did, you'd have nowhere to go.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#13. Among the Kimbrii the greatest shame a person can bring to himself or his clan is to start a war, but the second greatest is to submit to tyranny or injustice without a fight.
Aleksandra Layland
#15. The only thing that keeps me going, is the desire to get away as far as possible.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#16. I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.
Aleksandra Mir
#18. Look for the possibilities... rather than... locking doors too soon that might in time have opened.
Aleksandra Layland
#19. Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find.
Aleksandra Mir
#20. It's an easy guess, why some get famous over night and not during the day.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#22. I want you with me, my dearest. Not just as a friend, though also as that. I want you as my wife. I want to know that we share our lives and cares, we share our health and ill, and we share our happiness and sorrow.
Aleksandra Layland
#24. I think I must have invented you on one of those days I was really bored.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#25. I'm very jealous of an era where people were inventing something so beautiful as the Concorde and thinking that's the next step. I'm jealous of an era when people thought, "Let's finally go to the Moon."
Aleksandra Mir
#26. Only a woman is capable of stalking someone, just so she could have the pleasure of ignoring him.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#28. The plane as an object has been a huge effort to make. It is a sculpture, a technological invention, a piece of aviation culture. But really, it only exists to be inserted into a variety of landscapes, to be a catalyst, to offset them.
Aleksandra Mir
#29. The king should be the servant of his people, and seek to uplift them and their lives.
Aleksandra Layland
#30. Writing is easy. Saying something that would make a difference is the task.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#31. I like you. Therefore I will decorate you with qualities you don't have.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#32. He believed with all his heart that we should spend our lives in happiness and service, in joy and work, in kindness and in love, and he lived... and died... what he believed.
Aleksandra Layland
#34. It is by giving the freedom to the other, that is by letting go, we gain our own freedom back.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#36. If people would take me seriously, I'd never find out anything significant about them.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#38. I think the wildest wildlife you can find these days is in Chernobyl, where wolves are running around breeding quite well in the nuclear disaster zones.
Aleksandra Mir
#39. What is it that makes us who we are and what we are? Is it only our blood, the color of our hair, our skin, and our eyes? Or is it believing in what we believe and living the way we live?
Aleksandra Layland
#40. They say the silence is the language of God, but so is music. This is why we dance, we become loud in our silence.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#41. Into every life may come tragedy and triumph. Our goal is to meet both equally with serenity and radiant acquiescence. Yet even from the storm clouds of tragedy, rainbows can appear.
Aleksandra Layland
#42. Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who were interested in the same things I was: popular culture.
Aleksandra Mir
#43. When a man takes good care of the woman, she takes care of his competitors.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#44. I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions.
Aleksandra Mir
#46. Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional.
Aleksandra Mir
#47. People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns.
Aleksandra Mir
#48. We must not bind our hearts to the things of the world, no matter how beautiful they are or how much pleasure they give us. Our hearts must soar in the heavens for us to be truly the humans we were meant to be.
Aleksandra Layland
#49. A father never gives up on a son, not really, no matter how poorly he behaves at times or how many stupid decisions he makes. He tries to help that son learn how to become the man he was meant to be.
Aleksandra Layland
#50. You may be a good warrior... But you've made a mistake I never did. You agreed to serve a stupid king.
Aleksandra Layland
#51. Love is blind. Especially in the morning, because I can't see a damn thing before having coffee.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#52. Some people are like fragile petals, and they don't recover from hardship. Do we blame the petal? Or do we excuse its fragility and mourn its loss?
Aleksandra Layland
#54. I've made a poster at home. You know the iconic image of Che Guevara, the black and red graphic of his face? I think it's the perfect graphic, the best graphic ever made. I cut a Concorde out and put it over his head so it's Che looking up and the Concorde going by. Both are dead, maybe obsolete.
Aleksandra Mir
#55. I'm neither shy nor impressed by media and press. It's just another industry to me. My response to the criticism was, "I work with a steel factory. Why can't I work with the media?"
Aleksandra Mir
#56. There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It's usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I never really settle for one.
Aleksandra Mir
#57. The moment right now, it's a tragically regressive time we live in, you know. We just grounded the Concorde. Where's the future? We've lost the future.
Aleksandra Mir
#58. In a way I am saying the nation-state doesn't exist, borders don't exist, you can try going anywhere. It is a kind of pre-Internet consensus I always had in me.
Aleksandra Mir
#59. People relate giving to reciprocity. They expect things to be expressed in a way they can understand, which is usually their own.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#60. There is much we can learn from a friend who happens to be a horse.
Aleksandra Layland
#61. I think the optimal artwork is in constant circulation with the world around itself.
Aleksandra Mir
#63. A noble and resolute people can safely tread a dark and fearsome path if they always shine before them the lamps of wisdom and valor.
Aleksandra Layland
#64. By not letting me turn you into something you're not, you've helped me be more of myself.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#65. I try to make that tension almost stupidly overt in my projects, almost ridiculously so. I keep coming back to the same obvious points again and again.
Aleksandra Mir
#66. We always get help we ask for.
"Knock and the door will open"
Make sure it's the right door.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#67. Into every life both tragedy and triumph can fall, and we must learn to meet both with equal serenity.
Aleksandra Layland
#69. Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides.
Aleksandra Layland
#70. Divine does not tempt us to see what's in our hearts, it tempts us so we could see what's in our hearts.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#71. I have only wanted a wife who would know she was my equal in spirit, in mind, and in heart.
Aleksandra Layland
#73. God's greatest gift to mankind is our intellect. Even for those of you who are not of the faithful, the sheer logic alone cannot be denied. Education lifts a people to greater ability and achievement.
Aleksandra Layland
#74. Actions speak louder than words. Words cost nothing. Actions can cost everything.
Aleksandra Layland
#76. "Hello" is always presented as a linear narrative, a singular chain, sometimes in a loop. But the reality of making it is that connections are naturally sprawling all over the place, so I am free to edit any way I want.
Aleksandra Mir
#78. I will fight for you, and if you know me well enough, you know i am pretty darn good at winning.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#79. There is something to be said about the vastness of the earth, as well as the vastness of the heavens, in reminding us how small we are and how great God's creation is.
Aleksandra Layland
#80. The Stonehenge proposal got a lot of interesting criticism. One of the best - or worst - said something like, "Go home to Las Vegas." I think this project could possibly be realized at a very late part of my career. Right now, I don't have the authority, the budget, the credibility.
Aleksandra Mir
#81. I'm depending on other people to take the work and run. And if they run in so many directions, they sort of cancel each other out. So the meaning is always open.
Aleksandra Mir
#83. Those who intend to destroy me, underestimate my ability to regenerate.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#84. We must find within us a happiness with ourselves which no one else can disturb. Otherwise we give them power over us.
Aleksandra Layland
#85. If you can't be yours while being mine, maybe you aren't as yours as you'd like to convince yourself that you are.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#86. A man who wears a sword knows to hold the love of his wife and family dear, for at any time he may not see another day of it.
Aleksandra Layland
#87. "Hello" is pseudoscience. The only smart way to read it is not to believe in it, not to trust it, or to put yourself in it and imagine what's out there that you haven't been told or seen.
Aleksandra Mir
#89. In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the New School for Social Research and did cultural anthropology in the graduate school there.
Aleksandra Mir
#90. National parks, zoos, protected areas, polluted seas - using the whole world as a readymade, I thought about it as a stage set. To activate a stage set you need a drama, an actor to offset it.
Aleksandra Mir
#91. I've gotten all kinds of reactions and it's been used in so many different ways.
Aleksandra Mir
#92. The moment we refuse to hurt others because of our own pain, is the time we evolve as souls.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
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