Quotes About Spaces

#1. In blue Light nature space the whole world, wide grazing land, the open spaces wind across the land and the sky, blue, high

Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa

#2. I'm tired of trying to fill up my empty spaces with things I don't need and people I don't like.

Beau Taplin

#3. I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.

Philip Pearlstein

#4. Apparently, using two spaces after a period has become anachronistic. But tell that to my right thumb. -

Dani Shapiro

#5. The peace within and flowing from sacred spaces and architecture places is clothed in forgiveness, renunciation, and reconciliation.

Norris Brock Johnson

#6. I suppose, in some sense, wills are like maps: they are the imprint we leave, the places our affections have been entrenched; the work we have done; the money we have burrowed away; the furrows and the paths that lead back to spaces we have gone, and marked, and loved.

Lauren Oliver

#7. I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.

Kevin McCloud

#8. It was one thing to let these thoughts haunt the dark spaces of my mind, but another entirely to put them into the light, making them real.

Sarah Dessen

#9. Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas or rags; and they quickly fill up with un-things: old legs and wings and heads and hollow abdomens and body bags of wasps.

Alice Oswald

#10. But let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Kahlil Gibran

#11. I make spaces that apprehend light for our perception, and in some ways gather it, or seem to hold it ... my work is more about your seeing than it is about my seeing, although it is a product of my seeing.

James Turrell

#12. Empty Spaces:
After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.

Brian Andreas

#13. Memory builds itself without any clean or objective logic: a dot here, another dot here, and plenty of dark spaces in between. What we know is always evolving, always subdividing. Remember a memory often enough and you can create a new memory, the memory of remembering.

Anthony Doerr

#14. Artists, especially writers, great writers, are the most honest people I know. There are deep confessions in their words. And if we're strong enough to expose the spaces between them, we find truths there also.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#15. I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

Donna Karan

#16. She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks.

Sarah Waters

#17. Clean air, clean water, open spaces - these should once again be the birthright of every American.

Richard M. Nixon

#18. They were never scared of the kids who might die, or the empty spaces they would leave behind. They were afraid of us-the ones who lived.

Alexandra Bracken

#19. There's a freedom to simplicity;
a love that only grow in small spaces
killing yourself ever so slowly
to put a smile on your child's face
from born to fly

K.R. Albers

#20. We use objects to navigate spaces, making a map in our heads as neurons fire, pathways so well-worn we don't even know we reference them as we move from one location to the next, the same pattern. Every day.

Mindy McGinnis

#21. The wealth-income ratio in the United States has always been lower than in Europe. The main reason in the early years was that land values bulked less in the wide open spaces of North America. There was, of course, much more land, but it was very cheap.

Robert Solow

#22. We must not focus on occupying the spaces where power is exercised, but rather on starting long-run historical processes. We must initiate processes rather than occupy spaces.

Pope Francis

#23. Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.

Will Self

#24. I think that online harassment has become so ubiquitous on the Internet that a lot of women do feel safer, whatever that means, in spaces where they know like people are not going to bother them in that kind of way.

Jessica Valenti

#25. So shut the window tight and make sure the latch is fastened. Dark things have a way of slipping in through narrow spaces.

Leigh Bardugo

#26. Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.

David Adjaye

#27. Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.

Richard Attias

#28. Our perception of space alters the space. It is consciousness that finds meanings in all spaces

Tarthang Tulku

#29. Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.

John Hart

#30. With an architect as your guide, you can
responsibly stop worrying about what spaces
someone else might want in a house and focus only on those things your house should include.

Kevin Harris

#31. After all the shit that went down with Calease, I hate sleeping the way some people hate airplanes. Or small, dark spaces. Or spiders. Or being on an airplane in a small, dark space filled with spiders.

Erica Cameron

#32. I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against.

Lauren Groff

#33. I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably - small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

Taylor Hanson

#34. The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw evidence of the tiny brick houses that the incontinent municipalities, Voorschoten and Leidschendam and Rijswijk and Zoetermeer, pooped over the rural spaces surrounding The Hague.

Joseph O'Neill

#35. Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

Kiki Smith

#36. Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

David Suzuki

#37. As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the business of living in the world.

Laurie Foos

#38. The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.

H.P. Lovecraft

#39. I carved out little spaces within my heart; little, lovely mausoleums where I could lock each and every one of them inside, keep the memories safe and close to me forever.

T. Torrest

#40. The early Christian historical memory was formed on three land masses -Asia, Africa and Europe. In this respect it does not differ
from textually recorded human history, which formed in the conjunction between these three great spaces. Only three, not seven.

Thomas C. Oden

#41. What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.

Gilles Deleuze

#42. Nothing disappears completely ... In space, what came earlier continues to underpin what follows ... Pre-existing space underpins not only durable spatial arrangements, but also representational spaces and their attendant imagery and mythic narratives.

Henri Lefebvre

#43. And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

T. S. Eliot

#44. When I began making art, I just thought I liked it. As a woman who was placed in spaces with various conditions, conventions, and restrictions on self-expression, turning to art - whether visual art, writing novels, or writing articles - was to gain freedom from the space around me.

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

#45. A student Christian fellowship whose members roamed the corriders ... looking for likely converts (the afraid, the alone, the abandoned) and those who needed to use the bible to fill in the spaces where their personalitites should have been.

Kate Atkinson

#46. The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their thoughts, their emotions and their actions, however unconscious of this they may be.

Hugh Ferriss

#47. Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.

Edwin Markham

#48. And sometimes I sit there late at night or early in the morning, and I think about the vastness of the ocean, of the sky, of the spaces between us and the nearest stars, about the incredible, unfathomable bigness of it all.

Brendan Halpin

#49. History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

Sara Sheridan

#50. What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.

Elizabeth Bibesco

#51. City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

Bruce Babbitt

#52. I think of the snow, falling, drifting upward. Of extending the ephemeral. Spaces follow spaces, burgeoning, and the air smells so sweet.

Meia Geddes

#53. Speech within the kingdom of Amazonia - run by its sovereign Jeff Bezos and his board of directors with help from the wise counsel and judgment of the company's executives - is not protected in the same way that speech is constitutionally protected in America's public spaces.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#54. Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American.

Renzo Piano

#55. I'll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don't, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that's nowhere land.

Gary Busey

#56. He was indulgent toward the open spaces of other men's futures, but he was impatient with the shuttered quarters of their pasts.

Eleanor Catton

#57. The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

John Ruskin

#58. Portable designs have the power to transform unused public spaces into dynamic environments that build and invite communal experiences.

David Rockwell

#59. I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.

Annabelle Selldorf

#60. Alternative spaces, independent media, satellite, these all provide some tools by which we can work more independently and deal more directly with communities we hope to reach. Distribution is key, and finding alternative ways to do that with new media is critical.

Chuck D

#61. I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it.

Douglas Wilson

#62. With Kennedy, I was anchored. She filled all the lonely spaces inside of me with her laughter, with her wry and witty humor, with everything we had in common.

Lauren Blakely

#63. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

David Markson

#64. We can find delight and surprise in the most mundane circumstances and the most generic of spaces.

Elaina Marie

#65. I ponder the rhythms of letting go and embracing whatever is around the corner, trusting that the empty spaces will be filled. And knowing that sometimes community can happen only in the gaps where mystery resides.

Joyce Hollyday

#66. I've always been a homemaker, like, I like creating spaces. Even if I stay in a hotel, I'll unpack, I'll put my books out, I'll put my camera out, I'll throw a sweater over the lamp to get better light. I am a homemaker.

Drew Barrymore

#67. In order for good news to be good - like the gospel is good (literally means "good news") - it must invade bad spaces.

Matt Chandler

#68. We kiss with our eyes closed but our senses open, infusing the spaces between with the elements of the other.

A.J. Compton

#69. The light lives in the spaces between. It is there in the soil of that mountain, in the rock and in the snow.

Leigh Bardugo

#70. I think you must have your own office. I don't believe ever in shared office spaces.

Keith Rabois

#71. God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

John Locke

#72. Between his skin and hers, there was the smallest of spaces, barely enough for air, for this slick of sweat now chilling. Even still, a third person, their marriage, had slid in.

Lauren Groff

#73. The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there's no room for romance anywhere.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#74. I just like artist-driven projects, but for artists themselves: artist spaces, artist mentor programs, and artists buying buildings and making lofts. Doing whatever we can do. Because at the end of the day, I really think that we as a community only have each other.

Mark Bradford

#75. Like a serpent, this demon had coiled and nested into those empty and cavernous spaces of his heart. Like a harpy, she had preyed on his absolute aloneness.

Kelly Creagh

#76. I'll make love to you in all good places, under black mountains and open spaces.

Jethro Tull

#77. The only type of music I don't like is Dixieland jazz. It's just a little too happy and noisy for me. I like intervals and spaces in my music. There's just something about Dixieland.

Rick Moranis

#78. A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

Robert Smithson

#79. I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.

Larry Fitzgerald

#80. These were the facts. Facts were important. They separated fiction from reality, the tawdry world of Mike Longshott from the concrete spaces of Joe's world.

Lavie Tidhar

#81. One of the reasons I decided to enter this profession," one of the Riot Librarrrians wrote, "was because I'm in love with information, and the library remains one of the few spaces in our lives where information is not a commodity ... There's a subversive element to librarianship that I adore.

Marilyn Johnson

#82. I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.

David Hockney

#83. I don't have any phobias per se, but both tight and vast spaces tend to make me nervous after a prolonged time.

Allison Tolman

#84. Beautiful places are not just a joy for the moment, while you're there. They will become homes for you, spaces of solace and comfort, where you can close your eyes and go to. Nothing you experience will ever go away. It belongs to you now. Just feel. Don't be afraid to feel.

Charlotte Eriksson

#85. I wish I could run into the world's arms. Linger within the spaces between nothing. I wish I could filter out of existence. To live quietly without dying. I wish I could be cherished by life itself. To speak and sing volumes without lying to myself.

F.K. Preston

#86. Writing as a creative art flourishes only when there are no rules. Rules stifle you from entering the silent and forbidden spaces where the core of the story is waiting to be revealed.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#87. To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper
maps are the most condensed humanized spaces of all ... They make the landscape fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can't see and spaces we can't cover.

Robert Harbison

#88. Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.

Lara Giddings

#89. There's no need to let your family know the details of what you throw out or donate. You can leave communal spaces to the end. The first step is to confront your own stuff.

Marie Kondo

#90. To me, it's always been a challenge to look for the light: to look for those spaces in your heart where there is hope and faith and try to embrace that rather than crush it. I've spent so many years trying to crush those feelings of hope, and I certainly succeeded for quite a while.

Dave Gahan

#91. My books have always been safe spaces, sanctuaries for Queer folk, first and foremost, but all are welcome.

Andrew Demcak

#92. Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.

Jerry Saltz

#93. In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters.

John Burroughs

#94. Each space has a role to play, but while to date the majority of media investment and energy has really focused on the bought on the bought space ... this balance is shifting to a much stronger emphasis on owned and generated spaces.

Jamie Leach

#95. I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.

Brent Weeks

#96. Honor your challenges, for those spaces that you label as dark are actually there to bring you more light, to strengthen you, to firm your resolve, and to bring out the best in you.

Sanaya Roman

#97. A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

Richard Rogers

#98. People say the desert is desolate. Yet for me it's very much alive, full of surprises. As soon as I see those wide-open spaces, I can breathe,

Anneli Rufus

#99. At this horror I sank nearly to the lichened earth, transfixed with a dread not of this nor any world, but only of the mad spaces between the stars.

H.P. Lovecraft

#100. Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.

Mary Szybist