quotes about Sitting Quietly

“He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.”

“You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you'll raise your expectations of yourself. If your environment is not making you better, change it.”

“To take advantage of unexpected opportunities, we must leave ourselves available.”

“The whole economy would be much healthier if it would transition to an asset-based economy rather than a credit-based one.”

“I asked myself what Palestinians would do if Israel disappeared-if everything not only went back to the way it was before 1948 but if all the Jewish people abandoned the Holy Land and were scattered again. And for the first time, I knew the answer. We would still fight. Over nothing. Over a girl without a head scarf. Over who was toughest and most important. Over who would make the rules and who would get the best seat.”

“Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom: there was no longer the need to compose. The subject was there already made, and I could take from everything. It all belonged to me: a glass roof of a factory, with its broken and patched panels, lines on a road map, a corner of a Braque painting, paper fragments in the street. It was all the same: anything goes.”

Source : Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.10, Univ of California Press

“A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.”

Source : Edvard Grieg, Finn Benestad (2000). “Letters to colleagues and friends”, Peer Gynt Pr

“The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.”

“I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Out here a man settles his own problems.”