Wall Quotes - Page 13

• Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Ideas, Drawing

  "Sol LeWitt by Saul Ostrow". Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.

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• The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling down. We are painters and we paint. If I were a sculptor, I'd sculpt.

  Jack White

  Art, Fall, Feel Good

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• Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.

  Frank Yerby

  Believe, Inspiration, Writing

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• When you see something special, something inspired, you realise the debt we owe great curators and their unforgettable shows - literally unforgettable because you remember every picture, every wall and every juxtaposition.

  Charles Saatchi

  Special, Debt, Juxtaposition

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Iraq, People, Cynical

  "Arnold An 'Arrogant Patriarch'?". www.foxnews.com. April 05, 2012.

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• Fat slips through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream where it distributes the nutrients throughout the body. Olestra can't get through the wall, and it continues down the intestines and out the body.

  Michael F. Jacobson

  Body, Fats, Intestines

  "FDA looks at fat substitute" by Eugenia Halsey, www.cnn.com. November 18, 1995.

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• To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's own creativity.

  Eric Maisel

  Creativity, Anxiety, Littles

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In my head I am on my seventeen-year-old acid trip, when I saw my personas fall one minute after another, as if I was dying every moment.

  Francesco Clemente

  Buddhist, Fall, Years

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• This should be a true peace, which leads to the end of occupation and aggression, to the return of refugees to their homes, to the destruction of the dividing wall, and the establishment of a political status for East Jerusalem.

  Khaled Mashal

  Home, Political, Occupation

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• Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Labels, Needs

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• Seems those with money who don't worry about money have big walls.

  Robert Genn

  Money, Worry, Bigs

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• These beautiful days ... do not exist as mere pictures - maps hung upon the walls of memory to brighten at times when touched by association or will ... They saturate themselves into every part of the body and live always.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Memories, Vision

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.16, Great West Books

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• The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters even, than hang forever rusting on the wall.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Knowledge, Rude, Forever

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “Hyperion”, p.79

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• Sarah Palin had a big op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, and she said she's against death panels. And I thought, 'Really? She's the one who pulled the plug on the McCain campaign.'

  David Letterman

  Campaigns, Pieces, Bigs

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• But no temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...as if into this one mountain mansion Nature had gathered her choicest treasures.

  John Muir

  Rocks, Hands, Mountain

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• No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly these rocks are adorned, and how fine and reassuring the company they keep: Their feet among beautiful groves and meadows, their brows in the sky, a thousand flowers leaning confidingly against their feet, bathed in floods of water, floods of light.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Flower, Light

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• My new house is going to have wall-to-wall awards!

  Patsy Cline

  Awards, House

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• There are fashions in reading, even in thinking. You don't have to follow them unless you want to. On the other hand, watch out. Don't stick too closely to your favorite subject. That would keep you from adventuring into other fields. It's silly to build a wall around your interests.

  Walt Disney

  Fashion, Reading, Silly

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• Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

  Joaquin Miller

  Moon, Purple, Broken

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• When you're standing in deep water
  And you're bailing yourself out with a straw
  And when you're drowning in deep water
  And you wake up making love to a wall
  Well it's these little time that help to remind
  It's nothing without love, love, love

  Jewel

  Song, Deep Water, Making Love

  Song: Deep Water, Album: Spirit, 1998

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• I'm not against (bull fighting). Some nations like to see blood, and some like to see their victims suffer from speculation... They kill the bull very quick. Wall Street lets you live and suffer.

  Will Rogers

  Fighting, Blood, Suffering

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• As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers her brimming cups in endless variety, served in a grand hall, the sky its ceiling, the mountains its walls, decorated with glorious paintings and enlivened with bands of music ever playing.

  John Muir

  Sky, Mountain, Age

  John Muir (1973). “The American Wilderness: In the Words of John Muir”

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• No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life. Some lean back in majestic repose; others, absolutely sheer or nearly so for thousands of feet, advance beyond their companions in thoughtful attitudes, giving welcome to storms and calms alike, seemingly aware, yet heedless, of everything going on about them.

  John Muir

  Attitude, Thoughtful, Hands

  John Muir (2017). “The Yosemite: John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness”, p.11, Vertebrate Publishing

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• The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths, but in bossy walls and heavy, mound-like heaps and banks. Am made to feel that I am now in a strange land. I know hardly any of the plants, but few of the birds, and I am unable to see the country for the solemn, dark, mysterious cypress woods which cover everything.

  John Muir

  Country, Dark, Land

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California”, p.38, e-artnow

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• The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises or lowers the amount of interest. Any business that can't survive a one percent change must be skating on thin ice.
  Why even the poor farmer took a raise of another ten percent just to get a loan from the bank, and nobody from the government paid any attention. But you let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help to get them back into bed again.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Fall, Skating On Thin Ice

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