Rufino Quotes

#1. Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everyone, everywhere.

Rufino Tamayo

#2. Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

Rufino Tamayo

#3. You must play for the little fellow in the last row of the balcony who only has fifty cents to pay for a ticket.

Marcel Tabuteau

#4. Seeing is flux, he said. I mentioned the hidden narratives in his work, and he said that for him stories were like blood running through a body - paths of life. It was a revealing metaphor, and I never forgot it.

Siri Hustvedt

#5. People who ponder too much about the subject of enlightenment don't progress very fast. It is interesting to know it's there, but you can't know what it's like until you get there.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.

Marianne Williamson

#7. When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in dollars and in human misery, the demand for change will be made-not for the sake of minority people, but for the sake of all of us.

John Howard Griffin

#8. But sometimes, even when we know something is bad for us, we do it anyway. Maybe for the thrill, maybe to cure our curiosity, or maybe just to lie to ourselves a little longer.

Kandi Steiner

#9. Can you believe that, to say that ours is the only path when the fundamental thing in art is freedom! In art, there are millions of paths - as many paths as there are artists.

Rufino Tamayo

#10. I feel like I still am struggling in a lot of different ways. I still have to fight for certain things. Certain jobs. At least I'm working and I'm thankful for that.

Gina Gershon

#11. Some days I would get so exhausted, nauseous, in pain - just from going back through things. It's almost as if I had the experience and then the meta-experience.

Eve Ensler

#12. I've been semi-successful. I've done all right but I'm not the player I was. Who do I think will win the world championship? John Higgins. Have I been good for snooker? I don't know.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

#13. People plan. God laughs.

Calvin L. Hodock

#14. There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Charles Osgood

#15. Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man.

Robert Prechter

#16. Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.

Rufino Tamayo

#17. When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

Tennessee Ernie Ford

#18. It looks tough for Palace when you see some of the results they've got coming up.

Shaun Derry