Larry Poons Quotes

#1. A great painting is a great painting.

Larry Poons

#2. I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

Peter Hollingworth

#3. There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

Larry Poons

#4. There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.

Larry Poons

#5. Aging is mostly the failure to repair.

Gregory Benford

#6. The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

Larry Poons

#7. If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.

Larry Poons

#8. The audience is the camera. I don't want the audience to sit and watch, I want it to move.

King Hu

#9. You know what Ken Lay had for breakfast this morning? Shredded Wheat

Jay Leno

#10. Any time you think limitation it is not spiritual or god based,

Frank Healy

#11. Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

Terry Pratchett

#12. I once heard someone say that success is not hocus pocus but focus focus.

David

#13. One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases

Simon Newcomb

#14. If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.

Larry Poons

#15. Sometimes a day is a symbolic day, and you behave symbolically. Sometimes you search inside for a feeling, and, finding none, you remember that no feeling is frequently the most possible feeling.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

#16. Like physical work, if you don't practice, you shouldn't expect results.

Desiree Linden

#17. Whatever gets you through your life 'salright, 'salright

John Lennon

#18. It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

Jorge Luis Borges