"For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking, streaming, whirling; the gestures of light flowing or spurting through color. I see everything as possessing or possessed by gesture. I've often thought of my paintings as having an axis around which everything revolves."

-- Elaine de Kooning

#Color Quotes #Space Quotes #Light Quotes

“Unfortunately, in the very act of weeding, you make it possible for new weeds to grow.”

Source : Barbara Damrosch (2003). “The Garden Primer”, p.54, Rodale
“The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.”
“As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.”
“See?" Fezzik pointed then. Far down, at the very bottom of the mountain path, the man in black could be seen running. "Inigo is beaten." Inconceivable!" exploded the Sicilian. Fezzik never dared disagree with the hunchback. "I'm so stupid," Fezzik nodded. "Inigo has not lost to the man in black, he has defeated him. And to prove it he has put on all the man in black's clothes and masks and hoods and boots and gained eighty pounds.”
“Having a child is arguably the most important thing you do in life.”
“I think the most terrifying things I've seen have been created by human beings in reality.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“I run behind her, letting her stay a few steps ahead of me so if she happens to fall Iâ€™ll be there to laugh at her first and then help her up afterwards.”
“All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.”

Source : Lew Wallace (1969). “Lew Wallace; an Autobiography”

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