Maria Lassnig Quotes

#1. Fayez whistled low. That is not dead which can eternal lie. Or, y'know, whatever.

James S.A. Corey

#2. I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel at a given moment. I was sitting in a chair and felt it pressing against me. I still have the drawings where I depicted the sensation of sitting.

Maria Lassnig

#3. I possess a strong sense of reason.

Maria Lassnig

#4. This book would not have been made without the tireless mentoring and rare friendship of Christian Bok, Steven Collis and Nicole Markotic.

Jordan Scott

#5. Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity.

Cullen Hightower

#6. I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better ... that's for certain.

Klaus Kinski

#7. The truly humble feel the ground beneath their feet every day and do not only become aware of it when held aloft or pushed down to their knees.

Julian Baggini

#8. Everyone is brilliant at breakfast.

Oscar Wilde

#9. When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.

Maria Lassnig

#10. You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

Patricia Schroeder

#11. I can never afford to be in arrears with anything that I have to do; I must always be abreast or ahead of my tasks.

Theodore Roosevelt

#12. Nothing lasts. Not love, not grief.

Susan Goodman