Remedios Quotes

#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. Sifting through our thoughts like children going through colored stones
optimistic, because although some were too dark and some were too sharp, many glittered like precious gems.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

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

Remedios Varo

#4. Apparently he took my advice. He shoved me face-first into a boulder. It broke my nose.

Colleen Houck

#5. The longer I sat there, barely able to breathe, the more I recognized that just because society said something was one way hardly meant it was right

Megan Shepherd

#6. 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

#7. Simply put, if you are not doubting yourself or not thinking of other things that you could be doing instead of the task at hand, you're probably not working hard enough

Dos Remedios, Robert

#8. 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

#9. My family was so poor the lady next door gave birth to me.

Lee Trevino

#10. Using the Lean Startup approach, companies can create order not chaos by providing tools to test a vision continuously.

Eric Ries

#11. From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle, looking for hope. Because hope belongs in the dark places.

Jon Foreman

#12. 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

#13. I'm a firm believer that in-depth subjects can be better handled in a fantasy setting ... Let's face it, traveling to some far off land is a terrific way to break the mold, to do something different. Isn't that why we go on vacations?

Jim Starlin