Quotes About Gabo

#1. I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.

Kerry Washington

#2. The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.

John Steinbeck

#3. We affirm depth as the only pictorial and plastic form of space.

Naum Gabo

#4. A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#5. The image my work invokes is the image of good - not evil; the image of order - not chaos; the image of life - not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.

Naum Gabo

#6. If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.

Naum Gabo

#7. Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.

William Shakespeare

#8. Infidelity doesn't have to be the most devastating that can happen in a marriage.

Carole Matthews

#9. What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.

Susan Faludi

#10. What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.

Naum Gabo

#11. The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.

Naum Gabo

#12. The way of a creative mind is always positive, it always asserts; it does not know the doubts which are so characteristic of the scientific mind.

Naum Gabo

#13. Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.

Naum Gabo

#14. When I asked Vera why Michael was so obstinate, she told me that some asshole had recently broken Eliza's heart. A drummer, no less. Hell, even I know girls should stay away from the goddamn drummers.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#15. Most people are dead. Hitler. Ray Charles. Some other guys. But mostly those two.

Louis C.K.

#16. Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.

John Fante

#17. Art is not concerned with the meditation about what is and how it came to be. That is a task for knowledge. Knowledge is born of the desire to know, Art derives from the necessity to communicate and to announce.

Naum Gabo

#18. He didn't say it; he had to keep his desperation from bursting through the thin layer of dignity it had been wrapped in throughout the interview. Clark smiled and patted him on the arm.

Imbolo Mbue

#19. The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.

Naum Gabo

#20. Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to philosophy.

Naum Gabo

#21. It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.

Don Bluth

#22. Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.

Noel Coward

#23. Love can end. It isn't permanent by nature, whatever the weavers of fairy tales want to suggest. Forever takes hard work, and is destroyed by lies.

Christine Amsden