Grant Wood famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.
-- Grant Wood

#Ideas #Cows #Incubation
Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as â€˜beauty,â€™ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is the depth and intensity of an artistâ€™s experience that are the first importance in art.
-- Grant Wood

#Art #Reality #Everyday
I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.
-- Grant Wood

#Iowa #Appreciate #France
You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.
-- Grant Wood

#Wine #Beer #Fish Tanks
Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, you all had great moments, but you never tasted the supreme triumph; you were never a farm boy riding in from the fields on a bulging rack of new-mown hay.
-- Grant Wood

#Boys #Triumph #Riding

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.
Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israelâ€™s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.
I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.
None of my friends don't have Facebook accounts. Op-eds and studies can highlight our decreased enthusiasm for Facebook 'til the cows come home, but it doesn't change the fact that we are chained to the beast. Voluntarily, of course.
Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.
A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.
A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all.
Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death.

Grant Wood famous quotes

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