Nicole McKay famous quotes

If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.
-- Nicole McKay

#Art #Struggle #Bricks

Bricks are independent but can work well with other, tough to crack, fiercely loyal and put in the right spot will hold anything and everything that you’ve ever held dear with the greatest of ease.
-- Nicole McKay

#Independent #Loyal #Anything And Everything

You should go into every relationship as a brick and not a blanket.
-- Nicole McKay

#Bricks #Should #Blanket

Instead of putting flowers in books to flatten them you can use a brick.
-- Nicole McKay

#Book #Flower #Bricks

Blankets on the other hand are incredibly needy as they are always trying to fill a “void”. Are a bit whorish in that the instant you walk away from them in less than a minute they’ll be all over someone else, and the moment you actually need them they’re nowhere to be found.
-- Nicole McKay

#Hands #Trying #Void

You could carve out the inside of a brick and hide your money in it for safe keeping. It’s certainly safer than keeping it in the bank!
-- Nicole McKay

#Safe #Bricks

The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.
-- Nicole McKay

#Rocks #House #Bricks

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.

Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."

To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesn’t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

I am always struggling in finding time to daily grow in my faith. If you are not in the Word or focusing on Christ, or into prayer, you can't help but slip at times.

I never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

I began to study again, and now for the first time really achieved an understanding of the content of the Jew Karl Marx's life effort. Only now did his Capital become really intelligible to me, and also the struggle of the Social Democracy against the national economy, which aims only to prepare the ground for the domination of truly international finance and stock exchange capital.

A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.