Morris Graves Quotes

#1. I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together ... it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved.

Morris Graves

#2. What o'clock is it, Victor? asked Dorian Gray, sleepily.

Oscar Wilde

#3. Our clients are our only assets, so we kill ourselves for them.

John Grisham

#4. An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer ... the artist has the superiorly searching perception with which that world outside of man's contamination can be penetrated and the truth drawn out from it.

Morris Graves

#5. Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by being painted out ...

Morris Graves

#6. I am able to make a contribution ... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.

Morris Graves

#7. This is for your stubborn insistence on willfully endangering us both. Smack!

Evangeline Anderson

#8. There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.

Ennio Morricone

#9. So much happiness is caged in language, ready to burst out anytime and fade

Rae Armantrout

#10. Don't stare into mirrors. It's easy to get lost in there.

Eva Stachniak

#11. I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.

Morris Graves

#12. I barged through the palace, dripping a trail of blood behind me as I held the dead bird by the neck.

Alwyn Hamilton

#13. There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Hosea Ballou

#14. She still thought Sebastian planned to leave her. She had no idea he was contemplating keeping her forever."
Sebastian from Demon Possession

Kiersten Fay

#15. It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.

Morris Graves

#16. The descent of sport into spectacle is not unique to the age of genetic engineering. But it illustrates how performance-enhancing technologies, genetic or otherwise, can erode the part of athletic and artistic performance that celebrates natural talents and gifts.

Michael J. Sandel

#17. I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.

Morris Graves

#18. The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.

Morris Graves

#19. Teach your kids by modeling what you claim to believe.

Craig Groeschel

#20. I have a few TVs.

Wolf Blitzer

#21. It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable ... it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities ... I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.

Morris Graves

#22. It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.

Morris Graves

#23. Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

John McCarthy

#24. === God's deposit is great inside u, the prophet only calls it out

Ikechukwu Joseph