quotes about Knowing Everything

last updated: November 28, 2023

I am no longer interested in seeing and knowing everything all at once in my work. Technically I select the area of focus and if it's possible I try to make an amalgamation of every shape and color in the picture so that it acquires a circular movement: from representation to abstraction, from life to death, and vice-versa.
-- Olivo Barbieri

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“You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be.”
“I started taking classes and doing things that I had always wanted to do but couldn't because I was working. I signed up for a bunch of workout classes, and to my surprise, I realized I was enjoying it. Because I was working out so much, I started looking for more workout clothes and found a lot of redundancy - predictability that was uninspired. That's when I decided to start my own line.”

Source : "Fashion designer Dayna Devon: Pursuing new passions and plugging into mindfulness". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“There are things you won't know unless you try to find out. it's possible to notice things without seeming to. You're not a kid who doesn't know what a word says unless someone tells him. And how many years have you gone on living like that?”
“It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along.”
“The greatest opportunity of our lives is to wake ourselves up and get going. There is so much to be done and so little time to do it. We should impress ourselves with the seriousness of slothfulness.”
“I've been to paradise. But I've never been to me.”

Source : "Absolutely Fabulous: The End". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1995.
“Love is the possibility of possibilities. Its farthest reach is beyond us, no matter how long we love or how much. It will always remain the mute mystery to whose ecstasy and ache we can only surrender with a yes.”
“There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.”
“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.”
“The secret of life is getting today right. Everyone can get today right, and if you can do it once you can do it repeatedly.”

Source : Stuart McRobert (1998). “Beyond Brawn: The Insider's Encyclopedia on how to Build Muscle & Might”, C S Publishing