Quotes About Joseph Cornell

#1. I had always loved Joseph Cornell and wanted to do something with dioramas.

Marcel Dzama

#2. I paced while he slept, ricocheting like a dove skidding the lonely confines of a Joseph Cornell box.

Patti Smith

#3. I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.

Siri Hustvedt

#4. Is there a lot of stuff you don't understand? she said & I said pretty much the whole thing & she nodded & said that's what she thought, but it was nice to hear it anyways & we sat there on the porch swing, listening to the wind & growing up together.

Brian Andreas

#5. A substandard education will always result in a substandard nation.

Aubrey Priest

#6. Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys.
To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.

Joseph Cornell

#7. sometimes, something happens that jolts you to reality and causes you to reevaluate what's important in life and what you really want out of it. For

Kristin Addis

#8. Hard thoughts are held in small words.

Erika Swyler

#9. It looks," Lotze said, gazing down, "as if it was designed by a Jew.

Philip K. Dick

#10. He who loves you deeply owns you without your knowledge.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Yet in one sense they can miss it: that is, by failing to focus on it, even when in general terms they are aware of its reality.

J.I. Packer

#12. If there is such a person on the planet, then he or she-this self-appointed arbiter of "appropriateness"-deserves to be confronted with as many "inappropriate" transgressions as possible.

Simon Doonan

#13. Somehow a U.N. resolution about Syria puts us where we need to be? I think it is a reflection of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's beliefs that our foreign policy gets set by others.

Carly Fiorina

#14. Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.

Joseph Cornell

#15. My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed.

Joseph Cornell

#16. The 'classic' pig is inspired by northern Italy. It is made up of meat and fat, rosemary and garlic, salt and lots of black pepper.

Bill Buford

#17. Actors tell stories and we play different characters, and not all of them are healthy.

Andrea Roth

#18. Every public action which is not customary, either is wrong or, if it is right, is a dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.

Francis Cornford

#19. Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.

Joseph Cornell

#20. Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.

Joseph Cornell