Luis Gonzalez Quotes

#1. Usually the Indian people are outsiders who have to look up at the people who look down.

Luis Gonzalez

#2. When you're somebody who has the pretension to make art, it's completely different from when someone else says I want to make a book of your art. You don't decide the title, you don't decide the size, the order of the photographs ... so it's completely out of control!

Luis Gonzalez

#3. I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders - to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme - for I am dead with them, and they live in me again.

Henry Williamson

#4. It's no longer unusual for real avant-garde composers to have been in a band, and for bands to be interested in a wide range of music. Look at how artists like Aphex Twin are influenced by Nancarrow and Stockhausen.

Jonny Greenwood

#5. To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.

Luis Gonzalez

#6. To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, "What caused the Universe to exist?"

Marvin Minsky

#7. Losing money is a big loss, losing friends is greater than the loss, also lost all faith is lost

Eleanor Roosevelt

#8. I think it's impossible to know the destiny of things.

Luis Gonzalez

#9. It's very hard to try to be a cultural ... people who organize cultural things ... it's very complicated. And more so in a country like Guatemala.

Luis Gonzalez

#10. He don't debate he concentrate on survivin'
He don't like to drive if he's been drinkin'
But he'll drink while he's drivin'
He's the dude

Devin The Dude

#11. There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.

Toby Jones

#12. I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.

Luis Gonzalez

#13. James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the age, and humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would, over the next two centuries, forever change the world.

Jeremy Rifkin

#14. In memory of Emily we would like everyone to go out and do random acts of kindness, random acts of love to your friends or your neighbors or your fellow students because there is no way to make sense of this. It's what Emily would have wanted.

Luis Gonzalez

#15. I am a postmodern romantic. I try to use their way to photograph, and at the same time, incorporate the problems that I feel in a country like Guatemala.

Luis Gonzalez

#16. The possibility of something is better than the certainty of nothing.

Luis Samuel Gonzalez

#17. I'd prefer to invite the artists simply to work and have fun with Guatemalan artists. To share missions of life. Maybe that is more important than seeing an exhibition.

Luis Gonzalez

#18. If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

Luis Gonzalez

#19. Agatha of Woods Beyond."
He laid down the sword.
"Will you be my princess for the Ball?

Soman Chainani

#20. Night was swiftly approaching, but darkness would soon be a specter of the past

Luis Gonzalez

#21. I prefer to give a dollar to a thousand people.

Luis Gonzalez

#22. Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I feel a lot of emotion in each of her pieces; I think she understands our time, and she makes really interesting art because of that.

Luis Gonzalez

#23. You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.

Bjorn Borg

#24. You are being watched.

Harold Finch

#25. I think my relationship with life has changed - I want to make more complex images than before. Complex in the sense that I try to put in a lot of information, sometimes contradictory information.

Luis Gonzalez

#26. You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it,

Luis Gonzalez

#27. You never know who will see your images hanging. And I like that. I think you never really have control over the things that you do.

Luis Gonzalez

#28. Studies show that people tend to persevere longer with problems they've been told are difficult as opposed to easy.

Gretchen Rubin

#29. I can't believe this is happening to me. The weirdest thing is it was just a dream, and now it's actually real. It's hard to believe sometimes.

Carrie Underwood

#30. Face, to me, is a metaphor of sadness. And I want to share this sadness. I'm not really interested whether it's an Indian face or not - that's not as important for me. But it's still important to establish the relationships in order to bring about a consciousness of our fragility.

Luis Gonzalez

#31. The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world.

Luis Gonzalez

#32. I want to be a contemporary artist and at the same time a romantic!

Luis Gonzalez

#33. hand of a soldier on my arm but I did not turn

Chris Cleave