Bengston Quotes

#1. If anyone has the right to be measured by the standards of his own time, it is Alexander. Hermann Bengston, The Greeks and the Persians

Mary Renault

#2. I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.

Helen Fisher

#3. I'm not giving up You're not giving in This battle will turn into a war Before I let it come to an end.

Colleen Hoover

#4. For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps ran it. At that time, art was taken very seriously in terms of being an artist, and not as a profession.

Billy Al Bengston

#5. What are you doing?" Kody
"Going to ruin Thorn's day." Nick
"Do you think that's wise?" Kody
"Nat at all." Nick

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. The girl, indeed, is rare who does not, on getting married, attempt to remodel her husband according to her own ideas.

Aimee Dostoyevsky

#7. Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

Sydney Smith

#8. The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper palate, and teeth only. Those 'difficult' letters are B, F, M, P, V, W, and Y.

Jeff Dunham

#9. I owe a great debt to motor-racing, and the first place I went to in Europe when I was 20 was Italy, and I was extremely influenced by it in books until I got there.

Billy Al Bengston

#10. The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.

Billy Al Bengston

#11. I never do the cute thing with animals; they are interesting shapes. I just use their profile. Because German shepherds are so easily recognizable, they would fall outside my purview.

Billy Al Bengston

#12. Inside marriage, those feelings are pure. God wouldn't order us to be fruitful and multiply if He didn't want us to share intimacy. It fosters a special closeness.

Cathy Marie Hake

#13. Unbelief is the greatest of sins.

Thomas Aquinas

#14. I paint stupid things; that's what I do. I can't think of anything more boring than a really beautiful thing. You have to mess it up. There has to be something a little kinky to keep their attention.

Billy Al Bengston

#15. What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?

Shimon Peres

#16. Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

Neil Gaiman

#17. I'm doing what all modern artists do now, which is nothing - just sit around and dream about things. I'll do what they call 'the stroke of genius.'

Billy Al Bengston

#18. What would I have said to him if I'd known I would never see him again?

Jennifer Niven

#19. Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

Billy Al Bengston

#20. We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

Billy Al Bengston

#21. I'm not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

Matthew Fox

#22. We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

Henry Home, Lord Kames