Constructivists Quotes

#1. Anesthesiology 2013 Feb;118(2):251-70;

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#2. I am quite convinced now ... that the actual training of drawing cartoons - which is, of course, my style - led to my producing Spot. Cartoons must be very simple and have as few words as possible, and so, too, must the 'Spot' books.

Eric Hill

#3. Comfort, though can be a real reason for mediocrity and conformity, improves speed and enhances mind power greatly!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#4. When I was looking at the Russian Constructivists, these agitprop artists actually painted on trains. It was a heavy influence. They were bringing art to the people, to the masses, and breaking it out of the clubbiness of the art world, which is a monolith.

Jeffrey Deitch

#5. Don't go to your grave with your best work inside of you. Choose to die empty.

Todd Henry

#6. Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.

Charles Caleb Colton

#7. Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

Neil Gaiman

#8. There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

W. Averell Harriman

#9. You must learn to listen to and obey God, especially in a society where it's easy and expected to do what is most comfortable.

Francis Chan

#10. In my 20s, I became obsessed with the role-playing game 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms,' named after a classical Chinese novel, and later 'The Sims,' a life-simulation game, and 'StarCraft,' a science-fiction game.

Kim Young-ha

#11. The accident of our lives bruises The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality.

Gregory MacGuire

#12. Did you wake up feeling particularly gay this morning?

Laney Cairo

#13. Change life! Change Society! These ideas lose completely their meaning without producing an appropriate space. A lesson to be learned from soviet constructivists from the 1920s and 30s, and of their failure, is that new social relations demand a new space, and vice-versa.

Henri Lefebvre

#14. You are moving forward one way or another.

Bryant McGill

#15. Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.

Hans Morgenthau

#16. I give you my love & my luck. Don't throw either away.

Kelly Moran

#17. It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.

Antony Beevor