Alex Colville Quotes

• I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.

  Alex Colville

  Thinking, People, Kind

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• It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.

  Alex Colville

  Important, Ordinary, Ordinary Things

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• I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.

  Alex Colville

  Photography, Giving, Needs

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• I don’t intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what’s going to happen from one day to the next.

  Alex Colville

  Thinking, One Day, Next

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• The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.

  Alex Colville

  Men, Doe, He Man

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• Anxiety is the normality of our age.

  Alex Colville

  Anxiety, Age, Normality

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• My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.

  Alex Colville

  Thinking, Two, Elements

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• I don't think there's such a thing as an evil animal.

  Alex Colville

  Animal, Thinking, Evil

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