Expressionist Paintings Quotes

#1. How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out of their own emotions, attitudes, hands. And how many have only Polaroid pictures of their fathers.

Ellen Goodman

#2. Our teacher's [Ms. Whitlock] talking. Rambling how she'll give a hundred extra credit points to anyone who can solve the puzzle by the end of class. She's saying other things, too.

Katie McGarry

#3. He lived in a dreamer's world of ivory keys and messy shirts, unconcerned with the people around him.

Claire Legrand

#4. Friends possess everything in common.

Plato

#5. Never base your destiny on things you cannot control and have no power to change.

John Patrick Hickey

#6. I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

Georg Baselitz

#7. Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Have faith in your destiny

Swami Vivekananda

#9. Some parts of the genome with a high frequency of Neanderthal variants shape hair and skin color and likely made the first Eurasians lighter-skinned than their African ancestors.

Christine Kenneally

#10. Discipline is the long and arduous process of convincing the mind to abide by one's conscience.

Wes Fesler

#11. He's spilled the beans. He's poured out His intentions, allowing us full access. The humans put the Forbidden Book on display tables and shelves. But we actually read it; indeed we must no matter how loathsome.

Randy Alcorn

#12. One should never say never.

Mathias Dopfner

#13. An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

Cameron Mackintosh

#14. The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith.

Chester Bowles

#15. I don't believe in failure. I believe every setback is an opportunity to learn, regroup, get stronger, and try again.

Roselyn Sanchez

#16. Sixth grade was definitely a hard year for me. I got left out because I didn't go to any of the parties or hang out with the 'cool kids.' I was focusing on my academics. I wasn't allowed to go to any of the parties.

Jordan Pruitt

#17. I'm just an actor who happened to love these [Marvel] comics when I was a kid, and got to rediscover them.

Clark Gregg