Munakata Quotes

#1. Black and white are absolute ... expressing the most delicate vibration, the most profound tranquility, and unlimited profundity.

Shiko Munakata

#2. "Not being virulently and overtly racist against black people" and "treating gay people like human beings" are necessary conditions of greatness.

Mallory Ortberg

#3. Whatever you do, remember that. You're going to make a difference. A lot of times it won't be huge, it won't be visible even. But it will matter just the same. Don't do it for praise or money, that's what I want to tell you. Do it because it needs to be done. Do it to make your world better.

Ed Brubaker

#4. Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.

Pat Summitt

#5. Dreams will always lead us the way

Anusuya M

#6. I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

Ozzy Osbourne

#7. I want to strip my work of 'effects' until it stands monolithic, based on reality and yet transcending it. It must flow naturally from my materials, from the way of the chisel and the way of the block ... It is the ultimate ideal.

Shiko Munakata

#8. IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#9. I make black and white prints because I want to go back to the beginning.

Shiko Munakata

#10. If they would rather die, ... they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

Charles Dickens

#11. I'm not your fucking priest. Everyone's sorry just before they die. How many times did she ask you for mercy? How many times did she apologize?

Keri Lake

#12. The solution to all the problems of daily life is to cherish others.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#13. Whilst man is in one location, he thinks of another. Dancing with one woman, he can't help but long to see the quiet curve of another's nude shoulder; to never be satisfied, to never have the mind and body cheerfully stranded in a single location - this is the curse of the human race!

Marisha Pessl