Top 28 Quotes About Collings
#1. Oh you will die and soon
because you made the
choice to fall in love."
~Asher Lake
Shawn Reilly
#2. Artists don't often know much about writing ... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.
Matthew Collings
#3. Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Samuel Johnson
#4. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by.
Mother Teresa
#5. I started playing the violin at age 3, and I was very fortunate because there were people who heard me who were influential in getting me auditions. By the time I was 7, I was playing concerts - it was just ridiculous.
Phil Ramone
#6. Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#7. The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.
Matthew Collings
#8. The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.
Matthew Collings
#9. If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either
James M. Cain
#10. I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.
Matthew Collings
#11. Each day begins with a prayer of thank you ...
Wayne Dyer
#12. Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be a small amount, not a large area, and with the color separated from other colors by black or white (which is formula for Damien Hirst's successful dot paintings, incidentally).
Matthew Collings
#13. Stop being so ... "
"Charming?Attractive?Irresistible?
"I'm going with arrogant.
Rachel Caine
#14. You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.
Arundhati Roy
#15. Without warning, Hera had plucked up Percy Jackson, Annabeth's boyfriend, wiped his memory, and sent him to the Roman camp. In exchange, the Greeks had gotten Jason. None of that was Jason's fault; but every time Annabeth saw him, she remembered how much she missed Percy.
Rick Riordan
#16. It was as if he (Sigmar Polke) painted his imagery in a highly wrought way, instead of a calculatedly dumb way, or mechanical way, by silk-screening or by tracing from epidiascope projections, and so on.
Matthew Collings
#17. I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.
Amy Grant
#18. I love all of the ecosystems - mountains, deserts, rainforests. They're beautiful, and nature has so many different flavors to it.
Louie Schwartzberg
#19. Just as the Japanese pioneered a new form of manufacturing - lean production and quite new standards of reliability - so Tata, too, is embracing new forms of manufacture in order to revolutionise the price to meet the consumer needs of a poor, developing country.
Martin Jacques
#20. No one likes to be unrecognizable. No one wants to be a stranger to someone who is not a stranger to them.
Catherine Lacey
#21. Love those you find unlovable. The Lord has promised to reward you. - Helene C. Kuoni -
Gary Chapman
#22. What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past ...
Matthew Collings
#23. Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.
Matthew Collings
#25. Fear fed on ignorance, just as ignorance fed on fear. The great truths were always circular.
Michaelbrent Collings
#26. I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.
David Crosby
#27. Our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#28. It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be,' restored the status quo.
John Collings Squire
