Charles Demuth Quotes

#1. Whether through the Balfour

Alan Hart

#2. Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them. They are the final, the nth whoopee of sight.

Charles Demuth

#3. The oral (Laetrile) had been 'toxified' by adding cyano-urea in the NCI ... (NCI's) Mayo (Clinic) dismissed well responding patients to discard them from statistical evaluation ... This kind of fraud which I expressed ... and which was openly published ... has ... not resulted in any denial.

Hans Alfred Nieper

#4. The last mad throb of red just as it turns green; the ultimate shriek of orange calling all the blues of heaven for relief and support ... each color almost regains the fun it must have felt within itself on forming the first rainbow.

Charles Demuth

#5. What a hard thing it is to write of love! Easy enough to describe the burning brand of lust, or yearning of infatuation, that yearning that can never be assuaged. But love! There is only the word, and the knowing it.

Carolly Erickson

#6. You touch her again, and so help me I'll rip your arm off and beat you with it. (Ewan)

Kinley MacGregor

#7. Nasty things, you know, gods, they don't much care for anyone other than themselves.

Charlie Higson

#8. You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter than to bother with these god-damn words. I never actually thought of myself as a poet but I knew I had to be an artist in some way.

William Carlos Williams

#9. Flowers and flames. And color. Color as color, not as volume or light - only as color.

Charles Demuth

#10. We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.

Vance Havner

#11. The biggest ego trip going is getting rid of your ego

Alan Watts

#12. The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you're using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player.

Steve Vai

#13. I certainly know all about the Jersey jokes that amuse the rest of the country. You've probably heard them. Our state bird is the mosquito. Our state tree is dead. It doesn't help that we are represented on television by Tony Soprano and 'Jersey Shore.'

Sharon Kay Penman

#14. Success is uncommon, not to be found by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people.

Cal Stoll