Naum Gabo Quotes

#1. Art is not concerned with the meditation about what is and how it came to be. That is a task for knowledge. Knowledge is born of the desire to know, Art derives from the necessity to communicate and to announce.

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#2. The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.

Haruki Murakami

#3. We affirm depth as the only pictorial and plastic form of space.

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#4. Studies say that a woman can increase the likelihood of a man approaching her if she uncrosses her arms, makes subtle eye contact, and smiles,

Jill Shalvis

#5. The image my work invokes is the image of good - not evil; the image of order - not chaos; the image of life - not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.

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#6. If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.

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#7. I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.

Jodi Picoult

#8. What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.

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#9. The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.

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#10. The way of a creative mind is always positive, it always asserts; it does not know the doubts which are so characteristic of the scientific mind.

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#11. ...the one small wisdom he has gained from his life is that, when flags start to wave, someone must always refuse to join in.

Steven Heighton

#12. You don't really work for awards, but when they come it's ... nice.

Pierfrancesco Favino

#13. Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.

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#14. The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.

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#15. Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.

Terry Pratchett

#16. Startups often have to do dubious things.

Paul Graham

#17. Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to philosophy.

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#18. You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic.

Janice Erlbaum

#19. A woman is always better in everything with the mouth; she talks a lot.

M.F. Moonzajer

#20. An explanation." Sicarius regarded her intently. "Clarify the situation with the emperor. I could not understand the incoherent jumble you spit out before falling unconscious.

Lindsay Buroker

#21. The fact that I'm silent doesn't mean I have nothing to say.

Jonathan Carroll

#22. I think Henry Kissinger grew up with that odd mix of ego and insecurity that comes from being the smartest kid in the class. From really knowing you're more awesomely intelligent than anybody else, but also being the guy who got beaten up for being Jewish.

Walter Isaacson

#23. It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.

Norman Jewison