Top 33 Oppenheim Quotes
#1. I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
Laura Esquivel
#2. Make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been.
Dennis Oppenheim
#3. You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)
Dennis Oppenheim
#4. The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet.
James Oppenheim
#7. The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
#8. It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.
Susan Sontag
#10. They can only set free men free
And there is no need of that.
Free men set themselves free.
James Oppenheim
#11. The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.
Dennis Oppenheim
#12. Every notion is born along with its form. I make reality of ideas as they come into my head
Meret Oppenheim
#13. I hope you find a place in your life when you can let go and be happy. But I'm not a dirty secret. I'm not bad and wrong for being comfortable with myself, and I won't let you make me feel that way.
Lauren Dane
#15. I think people have a right to their point of view.
Annette Bening
#16. Other married people have lived together and hated each other. Why shouldn't we? We may forget even to hate.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
#17. Most of my work comes from ideas. I can usually do only a few versions of each idea. Land Art and Body Art were particularly strong concepts which allowed for a lot of permutations. But nevertheless, I found myself wanting to move onward into something else.
Dennis Oppenheim
#18. Quick as a hummingbird ... she darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly dipping into the flowers of my heart.
James Oppenheim
#19. Freedom is not something you are given, but something you have to take.
Meret Oppenheim
#20. As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children, and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!
James Oppenheim
#21. Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.
Dennis Oppenheim
#23. As we go marching, marching, we bring the greater days,
The rising of the women means the rising of the race.
No more the drudge and idler, ten that toil where one reposes,
But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and roses, bread and roses.
James Oppenheim
#24. [The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.
Dennis Oppenheim
#25. What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.
John Marshall
#27. To be a god
First I must be a god-maker:
We are what we create.
James Oppenheim
#28. War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.
Thomas Jefferson
#29. Let go and go beyond living the dream, by dreaming the reality, into a reality beyond the dream.
Tom Althouse
#30. The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you, Maud thought.
Ken Follett
#31. If I have no children what would be the point of living.
Sheena Easton
#32. The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons
Hannah Arendt
#33. We age inevitably:
The old joys fade and are gone:
And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.
James Oppenheim
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