Trying Quotes - Page 19

• At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves.

  Chuck Close

  Color, World, Want

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• Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

  Daniel Schorr

  Sake, Needed, Audience

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• Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted. [...] The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. They take the ready-made axioms laid down by others, and walk blindly in a rut without trying to see for themselves.

  Childe Hassam

  Art, Eye, Acceptance

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• You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints.

  William Merritt Chase

  Light, Color, Hue

  D. Scott Atkinson, Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., William Merritt Chase (1987). “William Merritt Chase: Summers at Shinnecock 1891-1902”, Universe Publishing(NY)

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• Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.

  William Merritt Chase

  Thinking, Done, Forget

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• Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

  William Merritt Chase

  Paint, Distinguished, Grandiose

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• I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

  Andy Summers

  Guitar, Police, Keyboards

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• When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

  Robert Wyatt

  Singing, Singers, Feels

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• There is no proof. There are no authorities whatever. No president, Academy, Court of Law, Congress or Senate on this earth has the knowledge or power to decide what will be the knowledge of tomorrow. There is no use in trying to prove something that is unknown to somebody who is ignorant of the unknown, or fearful of its threatening power. Only the good old rules of learning will eventually bring about understanding of what has invaded our earthly existence.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Law, Understanding, Ignorant

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• With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Ideas, Dumb, Retail

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• I don't believe in Gods and devils. I think it's man-made stories to try and help people understand where all this came from. They said 'Where did the world come from if there's no God', 'Where did life come from'. Just say 'I don't know'.  Don't say some guy made a man and a woman. You have no business doing that, you know what I mean? And then He got mad and flooded the whole world; told Noah to build an arc. These are terrible stories.

  Jacque Fresco

  Business, Believe, Mean

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• Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.

  Idi Amin

  Uganda, Boxing, Opponents

  Interview, African summit talks, Angola, "The Palm Beach Post" Newspaper, (p.A8), January 12, 1976.

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• I try to concentrate on quality clothing and accessories that are worth having, and to get my people to take fewer trips by air and stay longer each time they travel. It’s more human, especially if they take time to visit an art gallery while there.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Art, Air, People

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• It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.

  Ken Livingstone

  Nice, Crooks, Ambassadors

  "U.S.A. Is No. 1, on London List of Traffic Fees" by Alan Cowell, www.nytimes.com. May 02, 2006.

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• For me I'm a luxury brand trying to prove to people and the industry that it's not about being a TV celebrity in any which way, it's about being a designer and having a business and being successful at that.

  Christian Siriano

  Successful, Luxury, People

  "'Project Runway' Star Christian Siriano Delivers Another Hit at New York Fashion Week". www.foxnews.com. February 15, 2010.

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• A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.

  Christian Siriano

  Quality, Pieces, Investment

  "Project Runway's Fiercest Designer Ever". Interview with Leonora Epstein, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 29, 2008.

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• The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself

  Thea Astley

  People, About Yourself

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• The Australian sees itself not as a mere newspaper, but as a player in the game of national politics, calling upon the vast resources of the Murdoch empire and the millions of words it has available to it to try to make and unmake governments.

  Robert Manne

  Player, Government, Games

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• If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

  Brent Weeks

  Player, Worry, Spectators

  Brent Weeks (2009). “The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel”, p.123, Hachette UK

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• When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously. On the surface of the sea are multitudes of waves, but the sea is not affected below. In the deepest depths, at the bottom of the sea is all tranquility. So when you start meditating, try to feel your own inner existence first. That is to say, the bottom of the sea: calm and quiet. Feel that your whole being is surcharged with peace and tranquility.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Sea, Soul, Mind

  Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.264, Aum Publications

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• A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the mystic who tries to speak logically and formally of unity consciousness is doomed to sound very paradoxical or contradictory. The problem is that the structure of any language cannot grasp the nature of unity consciousness, any more than a fork could grasp the ocean.

  Ken Wilber

  Ocean, Unity, Sound

  Ken Wilber (2001). “No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured animal need to be to make you want to hear it that badly? Try to imagine any end other than taste for which it would be justifiable to do what we do to farmed animals.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Artist, Animal, Judging

  “Flesh of your flesh” by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. November 9, 2009.

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• I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean

  Tina Brown

  Mean, Being Me, Entertaining

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• I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.

  Joe Biden

  Mean, People, Speak

  Joe Biden (2007). “Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics”, p.84, Random House

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• The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an aim can be taken for granted. The real question concerns the proper means of achieving it. And in trying to answer this we must never lose sight of a few elementary truisms. We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Running, Real, Taken

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.146, Crown Business

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