Top 100 Quotes About Ellsworth

#1. A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.

Oliver Ellsworth

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#2. The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#3. Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direct and uncompromising.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#4. According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#5. I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets better and richer.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#6. In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#7. Lord Ellsworth," said Jack.

Andrew Delaplaine

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#8. Thaddeus knew again what it felt like to be living a life that was totally out of control. Which is something a cancer diagnosis can do in an eye blink. You don't know what it means, you're threatened and scared to death, and you lack all the information you'll need to try to pull yourself

John Ellsworth

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#9. The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.

Oliver Ellsworth

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#10. America is the last great goal of these migrations.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#11. I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.

Loretta Ellsworth

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#12. No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#13. My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#14. I believe people have to be open to what's happening when they're alive.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#15. When men are given the power to judge themselves, no guilt will ever be found

David Ellsworth

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#16. America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#17. Gravity doesn't exist, it's just that our planet sucks.

David Ellsworth

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#18. With every throb of the climatic pulse which we have felt in Central Asia,, the centre of civilisation has moved this way and that. Each throb has sent pain and decay to the lands whose day was done, life and vigour to those whose day was yet to be.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#19. The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#20. If not today, when?

Rosemary Ellsworth Brown

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#21. She kissed their knife marred bodies, for every act of war has, at its heart, an act of mercy.

Spencer Ellsworth

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#22. I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#23. When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#24. The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#25. You can't possibly enjoy growing older unless you make peace with where you are right now.

J. Ellsworth Kalas

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#26. Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#27. Matisse draws what I call the essence of the plants. He leaves a shape open. He'll do a leaf and not close it. Everybody used to say, oh, I got it all from Matisse, and I said, 'Not really.'

Ellsworth Kelly

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#28. I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'

Ellsworth Kelly

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#29. It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.

Oliver Ellsworth

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#30. One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.

Lincoln Ellsworth

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#31. The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible there may be abuses and misapplications; still, it is better to hazard something than to hazard at all.

Oliver Ellsworth

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#32. The negative is just as important as the positive.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#33. The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is as necessary for the prosperity of a nation as private credit is for the support and wealth of a family.

Oliver Ellsworth

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#34. Toni hears voices," said Trapp. "But who is this Dr. Ellsworth to tell her she's a schizophrenic? Maybe she just perceives better than the rest of us. Maybe the voices she hears are just uncommunicated ideas, floating free.

Louis Sachar

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#35. The whole history of life is a record of cycles.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#36. The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#37. Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discover that I could master a subject, no matter how difficult, if it helped me in what I wanted to do.

Lincoln Ellsworth

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#38. I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#39. All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#40. According to Finger, the panel in which Batman mows down his enemies from on high led to an editorial crackdown on firearms. "I was called on the carpet by [editorial director] Whit Ellsworth. He said, 'Never let us have Batman [use] a gun again.'

Glen Weldon

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#41. I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#42. Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#43. We rested beneath the stars and I counted each one, giving it a reason why I loved you. It was wonderful until I ran out of stars.

David Ellsworth

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#44. All dread those things they don't understand ...

Fannie Ellsworth Newberry

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#45. I was taught to draw very well when I was in school at Boston. And I grew to enjoy drawing so much that I never stopped.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#46. Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#47. Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection.

Oliver Ellsworth

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#48. The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#49. Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#50. What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Ellsworth asked: "Then, in order to be truly wealthy, a man should collect souls?

Ayn Rand

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#51. The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies.

Oliver Ellsworth

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#52. Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#53. I've always wanted ... I wanted to give people joy.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#54. I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#55. In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#56. I just feel like I can live on. I hope I can reach 100. I think today if you just keep doing, keep working, that - maybe that's possible.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#57. Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#58. I started doing sculpture in 1959. I had no commissions then. They were painted, similar in style to the paintings ... At a certain point, I decided I didn't want an edge between two colors, I wanted color differences in literal space.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#59. Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#60. Gray goes with gold. Gray goes with all colors. I've done gray-and-red paintings, and gray and orange go so well together. It takes a long time to make gray because gray has a little bit of color in it.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#61. I learned my color in Europe. I've always been a colorist, I think. I started when I was very young, being a bird-watcher, fascinated by the bird colors.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#62. If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

Lincoln Ellsworth

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#63. The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#64. Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#65. The world will always have people who have more than they'll ever need and people who need more than they'll ever have.

David Ellsworth

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#66. My earliest drawing is a supposed Carracci. It wasn't very expensive, I guess, because they don't know if it's a real Carracci. But it has all these seals on it of people who've owned it, and one of the great portrait painters of England, Reynolds, had owned it, so that's the earliest.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#67. Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#68. After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets, which is the proper place to throw everything that is not wanted.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#69. Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#70. Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

Oliver Ellsworth

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#71. I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly.

Fannie Ellsworth Newberry

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#72. From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#73. My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#74. I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#75. A great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing.

Fannie Ellsworth Newberry

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#76. In Paris in the late '40s, I started making my first reliefs. They are separate panels. I wanted to do something coming out of the wall, almost like a collage. I did a lot of white reliefs when I started because I liked antique reliefs, really old stuff.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#77. Three kilometres beneath the camp, sub-glacial Lake Ellsworth, and whatever secret it may hold, is sealed within a frozen tomb.

L.A. Larkin

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#78. I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting as I had known it was finished for me.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#79. And I couldn't help but think about the time during the operation when there was nothing in my check: when they removed my heart, and before they put the other hear tin. When I was connected to the heart and lunch machine. When I was technically dead ...
But I wasn't dead now ...

Loretta Ellsworth

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#80. I have trained my eye over and over ever since I was a kid. I was a bird watcher when I was a little boy. My grandmother gave me a bird book, and I got to like their colors.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#81. I've been incredibly blessed with good roles the past few years, but none of them compares to the experience of playing Ellsworth on 'Deadwood.' There are times when I've had as much fun or had comparably great material, but as a body of work, playing Ellsworth tops anything else in my lifetime.

Jim Beaver

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#82. All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#83. History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#84. It's ironic that when I was alive, all I thought about was death.

Loretta Ellsworth

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#85. Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.

Oliver Ellsworth

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#86. We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#87. I don't like mixed colors that much, like plum color or deep, deep colors that are hard to define.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#88. The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.

Oliver Ellsworth

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#89. our trials do not define us, rather they refine us.

Jeanna Ellsworth

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#90. Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#91. The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#92. In Boston, I developed my eye from the drawing. In Paris, I was fascinated by what my eye saw in the way that Paris is built, its 'measure.'

Ellsworth Kelly

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#93. Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#94. A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

Oliver Ellsworth

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#95. I only like artists older than myself. Time is so important. It's always been the same way, I guess.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#96. I have a sort of inner sense for scale.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#97. I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#98. I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments.

Ellsworth Kelly

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#99. It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America.

Ellsworth Huntington

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#100. The United States is no longer a nation that has a government. It is now a government that has a nation.

David Ellsworth

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