Parla Quotes

#1. I never want to abandon my roots. I want to give my past and the history of painting the importance it deserves, including the masters like Rembrandt, who built up the surface of the canvas with transparent layers.

Jose Parla

#2. She'd specifically told him that she only wanted sex. So unless they showed up at the market naked and fucked on a pile of tomatoes, letting him come along compromised her entire stance.

Elle Kennedy

#3. I have too much energy, even for myself. I'm lucky to have something that focuses me.

Jose Parla

#4. He who talks much cannot always talk well.
[It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.]

Carlo Goldoni

#5. You try to tap into a memory and you close your eyes and it comes back. So I was doing this in the painting and then that became a practice of mine. Sometimes it was a cathartic situation, a way to meditate.

Jose Parla

#6. My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.

Jose Parla

#7. Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education.

John F. Kennedy

#8. By the age of four one has experienced nearly everything one needs to be a writer of fiction; love, pain, loss, boredom, rage, guilt and fear of death.

Nicholas Delbanco

#9. I think artists should define themselves. They should speak about their work and how it relates to society and what's going on in the world.

Jose Parla

#10. As a young kid I was in love with breakdancing. I practiced the uprock style, which is a battle style of dance that looks like fighting. It comes from the gangs in New York in the 1960s and '70s. It's beautiful, almost like a martial art, and it can be funny, too, because you make fun of each other.

Jose Parla

#11. Your self-esteem has never been hurt before, right? Don't be so full of yourself then.

Kim A-joong

#12. I came here for you."
"Why?"
"Because I want to kiss you.

Jay McLean

#13. Sometimes I'm not so sure how healthy it is because it's exhausting to put all your emotion into your work, but I guess I should be thankful for that. I don't want the work to be about anything else but the truth and honesty.

Jose Parla

#14. The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present.

Jose Parla

#15. Parla Come Mangi'
It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.

Henry Parry Liddon

#17. Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.

John Gay

#18. The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind

Emanuel Lasker

#19. Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

John Donne

#20. And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.

Paul Auster

#21. So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.

Steve Case

#22. People have thought that some of my writing and lines are done by a machine. I'm able to move in a way that's part gestural dance performance, and it's fun for me, so I incorporate that into the painting.

Jose Parla

#23. The ice inside me melts. Suddenly, I'm burning up and terrified, scared I'll be too weak to resist.

Scratch that - I'm petrified I've already given in.

Amanda Bouchet

#24. If I'm going through something, I paint through it. It's very physical. I'm writing, I'm thinking, I'm meditating, I'm moving, I'm jumping off ladders, and it's therapeutic.

Jose Parla

#25. When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and became my art.

Jose Parla

#26. Sometimes I'm inspired by a certain part of my life - I'm thinking about a place and I'll mix the colors from memory.

Jose Parla

#27. For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.

Jose Parla