Quotes About Remedios Varo

#1. [Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?]
Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so much about the impossible as he is about freaks and deformities, but those are interesting to me too.

Audrey Niffenegger

#2. Someone else's success is not your failure.

Alexandra Robbins

#3. Books can be burned," croaked Black.
"They have a way of rising from the ashes," said Andreus.

James Thurber

#4. Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence.

Bertrand Russell

#5. On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat.

Remedios Varo

#6. I'm pretty much just hoping to live decent. I hope that's enough.

Markus Zusak

#7. I arrived in Mexico seeking the peace I had not found in Europe because of the turmoil there - for me it was impossible to paint amidst so much uneasiness.

Remedios Varo

#8. Like a true Nature's child, we were born, born to be wild

Steppenwolf

#9. I do not wish to talk about myself because I hold very deeply the belief that what is important is the work, not the person.

Remedios Varo

#10. How long shall we blunder along without the aid of unpartisan and authoritative scientific assistance in the administration of justice, no one knows; but all fair persons not conventionalized by provincial legal habits of mind ought, I should think, unite to effect some change.

Learned Hand

#11. I've always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things.

Graham Coxon

#12. He was undoubtedly intelligent and well informed, but too right-wing for Grane's tastes. It was rare to find a well-educated Swede who was also a wholehearted supporter of the American Republican Party - he even expressed some sympathy for the Tea Party movement.

David Lagercrantz

#13. Everything that she did or undid, however disparate that looked to an observer with prejudices, was done for what should be done, that is, with courage and without fear of consequences.

Remedios Varo

#14. I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

Ted Lange

#15. Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.

J.K. Rowling

#16. Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture.

H.P. Lovecraft