Kienholz Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.

Umberto Eco

#3. I wish there were a hundred services with which I could easily look at such a book; it would have saved me a lot of time, and it would have spared Google a tremendous amount of effort.

Sergey Brin

#4. I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor

Thomas A. Edison

#5. What do you care more about? The kids or your hair?

Ridley Pearson

#6. Independence of mind, enthusiasm, dedication to the field, and willingness to challenge and question and to explore new direction. There are plenty of people like that, but schools tend to discourage those characteristics.

Noam Chomsky

#7. I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.

Les Claypool

#8. I can't exist without books.

Ruth Rendell

#9. You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing.

Stephen Root

#10. The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.

William Hazlitt