quotes about Woman Artist

last updated: November 28, 2023

I paint flowers so they will not die.
-- Frida Kahlo

Source : "On Frida Kahlo's Birthday, Check Out Her 'Self-Portrait with Stalin'" by Nick Gillespie, reason.com. July 6, 2016.

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“It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.”
“When did you trust someone to hold a truth as carefully as you did?”
“I can dunk! I can dunk, and not just in NBA Live.”
“It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that proposes to alter this state of affairs, because I find no consensus of opinion as to which are the superfluous books ...”

Source : Mary Kingsley (2013). “West African Studies”, p.187, Routledge
“If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.”
“My parents were dismayed by my love of horror movies as a young girl, then even more dismayed when I kept rooting for Dracula to win instead of Van Helsing.”
“By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon”
“How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring.”
“Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.”
“It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.”