Top 31 Orozco's Quotes

#1. People who hate you because of a mere jealousy over your success hurt themselves in disguise. This is because you carry an image of who they wish they had become. Don't hate them back because they may also become like you one day and it will mean hurting that image you carry!

Israelmore Ayivor

#2. We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.

Jose Clemente Orozco

#3. Orozco's despair was not just in finding himself poor, but in discovering that effort, honest intentions, and gentlemanly status had nothing to do with sucess in a commercial economy.

Timothy Brook

#4. We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

Jose Clemente Orozco

#5. Every human being begins and ends the same way, but how much they love the humanity distinguish him from others.

Debasish Mridha

#6. beauty's voice speaks gently: it appeals only to the most awakened souls.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored.

Terry Tempest Williams

#8. It's not just love, or desire, but something profoundly less complex, as unadorned and simple as the vehicle code. Officer laughs, cries. Tearful and giddy, she whales on her demonstrator with what she realizes is joy in her heart.

Daniel Orozco

#9. I read books. I know who I am.

Daniel Orozco

#10. We normally consider stability to be the constant in life and accidents to be the exception, but it's exactly the opposite. In reality, the accident is the rule and stability is the exception.

Gabriel Orozco

#11. My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement that became static.

Gabriel Orozco

#12. Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion.

Jose Clemente Orozco

#13. The men we met walked past, slow, unsmiling, with downcast eyes, as if the melancholy of a over-burdened earth had weighted their feet, bowed their shoulders, borne down their glances

Joseph Conrad

#14. All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

Jose Clemente Orozco

#15. Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?

Jose Clemente Orozco

#16. What is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again. Really great art regenerates the perception of reality; the reality becomes richer, better or not, just different.

Gabriel Orozco

#17. Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.

Dale Carnegie

#18. Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?

Jose Clemente Orozco

#19. Tony Swan, Jorge Sanchez, Calvin Franz, Frances Neagley, Stanley Lowrey, Manuel Orozco, David O'Donnell, and Karla Dixon.

Lee Child

#20. There is no one on Earth quite like you. No one can compare to you. Three questions: Do you realize how special you are? Do you believe how special you are? Do you demonstrate to the world how special you are? Don't live your life trying to live someone else's life. Be you!

Clifton Anderson

#21. What I'm after is the liquidity of things, how one things leads you on to the rest ... The works are about concentration, intention, and paths of thought: the flow of totality in our perception, the fragmentation of the river of phenomenon.

Gabriel Orozco

#22. I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things.

Gabriel Orozco

#23. The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#24. Photography is more than a window for me. Photography is more like a space that tries to capture situations.

Gabriel Orozco

#25. Just because I fucked you like a husband this afternoon doesn't mean you're in charge.

C.D. Reiss

#26. I try always to intimate with the world ... with everything I can, to feel love for it, or interest in it. To be intimate you have to open yourself, to be fearless, to trust what is around you, animate and inanimate. Then you start to change the scale of things, of the public and private.

Gabriel Orozco

#27. You get where you are by yourself. There's no regret in that. That's just the way it is.

Daniel Orozco

#28. You see what you understand, You have to be prepared to see the world. The moment of clicking the camera is almost irrelevant. What is really important is what happens before and after you take the picture.

Gabriel Orozco

#29. Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

Jerry Saltz

#30. I admire the artists that work everyday to attest things for themselves ... In the act of transforming the objects of the everyday they transform the passage of time and analyze the economics and politics of the instruments of living.

Gabriel Orozco

#31. I recall the eerie pleasure of getting a copy of the U-2 Users' Manual.

George Smoot

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