Uhrigs Professional Painting Quotes

#1. Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

Charles Baudelaire

#2. Sexuality, eroticism and desire are important for all of us. But that is also the contradiction. How can we speak about pictures and, for example, say no to this way of representing a woman's body? It's also a camera-and-object problem, of who is really guiding the camera.

Pipilotti Rist

#3. Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.

Booth Tarkington

#5. ... I never understood until the past months why the Master so often withdrew alone into the wilderness. There is not only food and medicine for one's body; there is also healing for the heart and strength for the soul in nature. One gets very close to God ... in these temples of God's own building.

Harold Bell Wright

#6. Espresso is a miracle of chemistry in a cup,

Andrea Illy

#7. I'm European, I wake up in heels.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

#8. And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.

Charles Dickens

#9. Nothing happened, and time stubbornly refused to pass.

Michel Faber