Niki Saint Phalle Quotes

#1. I was shooting at myself - I was shooting my own violence and the violence of the times

Niki De Saint Phalle

#2. Everywhere you walk, every place you go is full of art, explicit or hidden! If you can see them, you will be the richest art collector and your memory will be the richest art gallery!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.

Edward Thorndike

#4. I love the round, the curves, the undulation, the world is round, the world is a breast

Niki De Saint Phalle

#5. Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

Niki De Saint Phalle

#6. You have to age gracefully. And that's what I love about Keith Richards. That's what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that's the most beautiful thing that we can do.

Nikki Sixx

#7. Our prayers are the shadows of mercy.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. Grief is the natural by-product of love. One cannot selflessly love another person and not grieve at his suffering or eventual death. The only way to avoid the grief would be to not experience the love; and it is love that gives life its richness and meaning.

Lance B. Wickman

#9. Writing is good, thinking is better. Being smart is good, being patient is better.

Hermann Hesse

#10. Music is the softest cushion in the world.

Niki De Saint Phalle

#11. While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#12. I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don't want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic.

Charles De Lint

#13. I'm gonna hang out with my wang out

Cat Mason

#14. Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it.

Niki De Saint Phalle

#15. A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

Thomas Jefferson

#16. I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John ... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne.

John Wayne

#17. I seem to recall Trinity kicking your ass a time or two, Acari Loren. Easy enough with such a wide target.
I hated stooping to such ridiculously adolescent taunts, but sometimes you needed to speak the native tongue.

Veronica Wolff