Water Quotes - Page 31

• We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate outside ourselves.

  Mark Tobey

  Agreement, Ego, Wish

  Bahai lecture; as quoted in "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America", W.C. Seitz, 1983, pp. 66/67, 1951.

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• The undersea world surrounding Green Island looks just like a water fairyland.

  Mehgan Heaney-Grier

  Islands, Looks, World

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• Master water first and then paint.

  Joshua L. Goldberg

  Firsts, Paint, Masters

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• My paintings should become objects into which one could float, as in water, so that one's mind is hung... suspended, and the emanation of the painting would penetrate into people's consciousness.

  Douglas Portway

  Space, People, Mind

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• It took me over a couple of months to find the right piece of transparent paper for a section near the centre, on the right side of the Garden of Nebuchadnezzar. When I did find it, it was on a bottle of my wife's toilet water.

  Harold Town

  Couple, Garden, Wife

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• I remind myself that traveling through life as an artist requires one to distill things slowly. To be inquisitive, inventive, and patient - a lot of things get discarded along the way. It's a little like boiling sea water to get at the salt.

  James Nares

  Artist, Sea, Littles

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• The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed... Whatever I put down on the page, the paint will dry as it wants to.

  Joseph Raffael

  Color, Dry, Want

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• Watercolor is an alchemical medium - colors mixing with water, joining with it, being extended by it - creating new life where none had been before.

  Joseph Raffael

  Color, Creating, Mixing

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• I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do.

  Wade Guyton

  Art, Father, Kids

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• I accept that life is uncertain--that the goal is not to become more certain about anything but to relax more into the mystery of not knowing what will come next. And then, miracle of miracles, out there in the deep and uncertain water, I come into a peaceful knowing--a faithful wisdom that surpasses control and certainty.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Life, Knowing, Goal

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• Reviving Spring, a toast to thy fresh lips! Thy blush is music, and e'en heaven lurks In thy thick perfumed hair that hangs about Thy flowered shoulders like enchanted rain; Thy sigh is song and thy soft breath a balm, Dispelling death -- soft loosing his cold grip, Unravelling darkness in the heart of pain, As o'er dank waters rings the laugh of dawn.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Song, Pain, Spring

  William Batchelder Greene (1888). “Cloudrifts at Twilight”

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• Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide, Of waters soft and sweet: Alas! I've never reached the other side; Though oft I've wet my feet!

  William Batchelder Greene

  Sweet, Art, Women

  William Batchelder Greene (1871). “Imogen: And Other Poems”, p.62

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• At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Math, Winning, Cities

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2008). “Pump Six and Other Stories”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.

  Jonathan Alter

  Running, Thinking, Politics

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• Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic .

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Fighting, Ideas, Shelter

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.423, Spectra

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• Dieting is long-haul. Many rapid weight loss programs actually only squeeze the water out of you. Just like a wet sponge. But a good dieter maintains his or her grip on that sponge, not letting it soak up water again.

  Owen Jones

  Loss, Long, Dieting

  Owen Jones (2015). “Your Weight and You”, p.19, Owen Jones

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• People who stand near the water in the darkness are either lovers or poets. Or else ... one of that great gray number who've simply had it -- who throw in their hand and won't play anymore.

  Wolfgang Borchert

  Hands, Play, Numbers

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• A wedding is earth and water and a species of irreducible light and the flat belly of a harbor and a mango about to ripen and fall into gravity's caress and the waves subsiding and resuming their concerto in a minor key and the rush hour canceled by the stun of auspicious beginnings.

  Mark McMorris

  Fall, Keys, Light

  Mark McMorris (2003). “The Blaze of the Poui: Poems”, p.69, University of Georgia Press

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• As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Flames, Two, Mind

  "Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1987.

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• Flat Earth theory serves well enough for a trip from the cave to the water hole and back, and a third dimension going up into the sky and down underground serves to accommodate gods and devils A lot of people still think like that, believe it or not.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Believe, Thinking, Sky

  "The Apophenion: A Chaos Magick Paradigm". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 2008.

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• When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.

  Karel Appel

  Ocean, Book, Space

  "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Book edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York, p. 93, 'Quotes', 1990.

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• Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Running, Past, Rocks

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.90, Library of Alexandria

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• Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

  John Fowles

  Drinking, Excellence, Wave

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Dying, Ephemeral

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• The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.

  Max Lucado

  Car, Risk, Age

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