Robert Ryman famous quotes

03-24-2025

I donâ€™t abstract from anything.â€¦I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface.
-- Robert Ryman

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There is never a question of what to paint but only how to paint.
-- Robert Ryman

#Paint
The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.
-- Robert Ryman

#Real #Giving #Purpose
My approach tends to be from experiments. I need the challenge. If I know how to do something well, there's no need to do it all the time because it becomes a little monotonous. So I like to find a challenge.
-- Robert Ryman

#Challenges #Littles #Needs
What painting is, is exactly what people see.
-- Robert Ryman

#People #Painting
I don’t abstract from anything.…I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface.
-- Robert Ryman

#Real #Light #Space

First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.
A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real.
I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.
I always knew I was going to die in space.
In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
You work here [on the farm] simply without philosophizing; sometimes the work is hard and crowded with pettiness. But at times you feel a surge of cosmic exaltation, like the clear light of the heavens... . And you, too, seem to be taking root in the soil which you are digging, to be nourished by the rays of the sun, to share life with the tiniest blade of grass, with each flower; living in nature's depths, you seem then to rise and grow into the vast expanse of the universe.
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.

Robert Ryman famous quotes

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