Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Nicholson

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Mary Lambert

Yes, I would loved to have just sustained myself through my art, but less than one in a billion musicians gets that life. So rather than being like, 'I'm an exception!', like a moron, I thought I'd get a real job.

Charles Bukowski

escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you.

Charles Bukowski

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

Charles Bukowski

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Charles Bukowski

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Charles Bukowski

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.

Charles Bukowski

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

John Milton

Black it stood as night, / Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, / And shook a dreadful dart.

Nora Ephron

Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.

Monique Coleman

I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas.

Mark Rothko

There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.

Oscar Wilde

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

Lucille Clifton

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

Louis Farrakhan

There is no one right now in my judgment that can unite the Black electorate in such a way to present our agenda to a nominee to have them forthrightly address our concerns.

Lorraine Hansberry

Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

Michael Rooker

Don't mess with me! I'm a black-belt!

Donnie Edwards

Marty has been talking about us finishing games. ... He has been stressing about making plays when you have to.

Tim Kessel

It was great to see the senior finish his home season with domination.

Fallon McClanahan

It was neck and neck all night long. We had leads of 24-21 and they would rally back. We just could not finish them off.

Kari Williams

It was a good finish for us. We didn't have trouble with the press and still did a lot of scoring after that.

Jim Allen

I've got about 15 years I still want to work, ... I would love that this is where I finish those 15 years.

Corey Dillon

I've got enough yards to last me a lifetime. Right now, it's just about doing whatever I can to help this team win. I'm just going to finish strong.

Frank Robinson

It was a good comeback. Stirring. We just couldn't finish it off.

Jamie Langenbrunner

It was a great win to finish a great week.

Bill Clinton

It's the American people who sent us here; it's our obligation to meet their priorities. So let's roll up our sleeves, get back to work and get back to work and finish the work we were sent here to do.

Linda Chavez

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

Kevin Hart

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

Kelly Osbourne

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

Lennox Lewis

There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy.

Joseph Campbell

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

Karl Popper

no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.

Paul Lynde

My kitchen is not a place to live in. I made it white so I can tell instantly if it's not clean-and I like it clean enough to be able to eat off the floors-or the tables,for that matter.

George MacDonald

Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

John Crowe Ransom

Would you ascend to Heaven and bodiless dwell? Or take your bodies honorless to Hell? In Heaven you have heard no marriage is, No white flesh tinder to your lecheries