Quotes About Jacob Lawrence

#1. The wave of the future is on the local level. Don't waste your heart and mind trying to pull down what is already destroying itself. But come into where you're almost below the radar and reorganize life. We want communities where we live and work and fight for the future.

Joanna Macy

#2. I have an assuredness of myself. I never protect myself against it.

Jacob Lawrence

#3. You bring to a painting your own experience.

Jacob Lawrence

#4. It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus as an honourable guest of Zeus is short. It's a pity, but all too eager will the common folk drag him from this etherial heights to the low and trodden earth.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#5. Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of a true Latter-day Saint.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#6. I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

Clarke Peters

#7. I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

Jacob Lawrence

#8. If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man's continuous struggle to lift his social position and to add dimension to his spiritual being.

Jacob Lawrence

#9. Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

John Ruskin

#10. I'd stop in the middle of a gun fight and sing a song.

Ken Curtis

#11. The Human subject is the most important thing. My work is abstract in the sense of having been designed and composed, but it is not abstract in the sense of having no human content I want to communicate. I want the idea to strike right away.

Jacob Lawrence

#12. You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It's the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness. so saturated with flavor that it fills your whole body, not just your mouth.

Mike Carey

#13. This is my genre ... the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

Jacob Lawrence

#14. I hear he liked flowers pretty well."
"Yes," said Annie, "he said they were the friends who always came back and never disappointed him."
"Out, Brief Candle

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!

Alan Parsons

#16. There was something about the sound of a man in pain that resembled the sound of a wounded animal.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#17. My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he has developed this philosophy, he does not put paint on canvas, he puts himself on canvas.

Jacob Lawrence

#18. I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do.

Emily Watson

#19. It made her forget everything, even if for just a minute.

T.K. Leigh

#20. All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

Jacob Lawrence