Pierre Alechinsky Quotes

#1. My kids get everything they want and are raised well.

Suge Knight

#2. I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I'm not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day.

Ben Bradlee

#3. We limit how much technology our kids use at home

Steve Jobs

#4. Whether it be in the sun, the rain, or the snow,

You should always have fun, wherever you go.

Think of all the amusing things you can do,

To bring much laughter and happiness too.

Susanne Alexander-Heaton

#5. Maybe he's become addicted to living, he thinks, its gentle terror like the rush of insect wings against his face.

Jennifer Mills

#6. When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds in this expression the same effect - I would even say the same picture - that he had unconsciously acquired by his habit to experience reality intensely.

Pierre Alechinsky

#7. Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.

Pierre Alechinsky

#8. Only during the action is the idea of matter influenced.

Pierre Alechinsky

#9. Each time you choose not to act on a frightened part of your personality, you create authentic power - and you grow spiritually. The frightened parts of your personality come less frequently and with less intensity, and the loving parts fill more and more of your consciousness.

Gary Zukav

#10. When I paint, I liberate monsters They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists experience One does not choose the content, one submits to it.

Pierre Alechinsky

#11. The main thing is that we are part of the reality in ourselves to perfect one's power of discovery and that leads to the discovery of our organic ourselves without fear of immersing ourselves in the earth, the sea, fire or air.

Pierre Alechinsky

#12. Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion.

Pierre Alechinsky

#13. The charity of good women is such that their 'love makes no parade'; they are not glad 'when others go wrong'; they are too busy serving to sit statusfully about, waiting to be offended.

Neal A. Maxwell

#14. I'm fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I'd like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don't like being alone because they truly don't like themselves, but I love me.

Gene Simmons

#15. Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ... CONCRETE ... one builds a picture.

Pierre Alechinsky

#16. Any self-defense class worth its salt will tell you that
you don't pull out a weapon unless you intend to use it.
The same should apply to ballsy remarks.

Henry Mosquera

#17. 'Growing Stronger' emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up.

Thalia

#18. The deliberate expansion of means and methods does not automatically bring a new dimension of value.

Pierre Alechinsky

#19. People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and painting are entirely different. Painting takes a different mental approach. You have to get the right attitude, the right mood.

Pierre Alechinsky

#20. This is not rocket science - climate science is very simple. A 12-year-old could probably understand this subject [of climate change].

Arthur B. Robinson

#21. Everything that you paint may be used as evidence against you.

Pierre Alechinsky

#22. Why do ye smite your younger brother with a rod?

Joseph Smith Jr.

#23. When I was on the X-Factor, I found that I grew a lot as a performer. I knew I could sing but I didn't believe in myself enough ... I needed to hear that I was good.

Rebecca Ferguson

#24. Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

Pierre Alechinsky