Top 15 Mary Heilmann Quotes

#1. The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#2. Where I come from your truck is a reflection of who you are.

Jase Robertson

#3. Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.

Socrates

#4. You persist in playing the role of a spoiled, petulant debutante without the wit to realize your every action has a consequence.

Marsha Canham

#5. And Eoferwic, I thought, was where my story had all begun. Where my father had died. Where I had become the Lord of Bebbanburg. Where I had met Ragnar and learned of the ancient gods.

Bernard Cornwell

#6. Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation.

Mary Heilmann

#7. A la Rothschild, a style I define as many good things used irreverently.

Robert Denning

#8. Lucie stood stretching out her arms towards her husband, with nothing in her face but love and consolation.

Charles Dickens

#9. There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.

William Zinsser

#10. I can't write five words but that I change seven.

Dorothy Parker

#11. Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think

Henri Poincare

#12. One thing that really interests me is-and it comes out of Chinese and Japanese painting-where you have a number of different kinds of space in the same painting. You have a kind of deep space, and then you have something like right up on the surface.

Mary Heilmann

#13. Painting a line across canvas with a brush is similar to the motion of a wave breaking.

Mary Heilmann

#14. Every shot feels like the first shot of the day. If I'm on the range hitting shot after shot, I can hit them just as good as I did when I was 30. But out on the course, your body changes between shots. You get out of the cart, and you've got this 170-yard 5-iron over a bunker, and it goes about 138.

Lee Trevino

#15. Sleep deprivation is the most common brain impairment.

William C. Dement

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