Top 20 Lillian Bassman Quotes
#1. I'm filled with desire - to live, to write, to do everything. Desire itself is a kind of immortality.
Anatole Broyard
#2. There is thing you can do but I can not and there is thing I can but you can not; so let us make something beautiful for God.
Mother Teresa
#4. Superstition is believing that something means anything and that anything means something and that each thing means a particular thing and will mean a particular thing is coming. Oh yes it does.
Gertrude Stein
#5. If a man sins and denies it, saying, 'I have not sinned,' do not correct him, or you will destroy any intention he might have of changing. If you say, 'Do not be cast down, my brother, but be careful about that in the future,' you will move his heart to repent.
Poemen
#6. Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
Abbas Kiarostami
#8. They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.
John Wesley
#9. If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.
Leo Durocher
#10. Power comes not from power everywhere, but from knowing where to put it on.
Norman Maclean
#11. The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)
R.C. Sproul
#12. Conscientious parents, aware of their educational duties, have a primal and original right to determine that the children which God has given them should be educated in the spirit of true faith.
Pope Pius XI
#13. I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world.
Lillian Bassman
#14. Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.
Lillian Bassman
#15. Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.
Isaac Asimov
#17. [When I photograph] I project what I'm not. What I would like to be.
Lillian Bassman
#18. The bar door creaked open. "Jaysus, Ruairi. You've not gone and pissed off your new girlfriend before you've had a chance to shag her?
Zara Keane
#19. The women who intrigued me [as models] had the most beautiful necks and the most responsive hand movements. At one point, I found El Greco, and that elongated look became my way of seeing.
Lillian Bassman
#20. It was sexually a very different thing when [the models] worked with men. They felt a charge ... I caught them when they were relaxed, natural, and I spent a lot of time talking to them about their husbands, their lovers, their babies.
Lillian Bassman
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