"You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head."

-- Alex Katz

#Ideas Quotes #Want Quotes #Painting Quotes

“You ask â€˜for whatâ€™ God wants you. Isnâ€™t the primary answer that He wants you. Weâ€™re not told that the lost sheep was sought out for anything except itself [Matthew 18:12-14; Luke 15:3-7]. Of course, He may have a special job for you: and the certain job is that of becoming more and more His.”
“It is hard to violate somebody's privacy if the person is completely anonymous.”
“On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!”

Source : Thomas William Parsons (1866). “The magnolia [verse].”, p.29
“So many people want me to hate him and destroy him, but I don't want to. I want him to be happy. He's not a bad person.”
“If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.”
“Films with a message just make me laugh.”

Source : "Surfer on the new wave" by Peter Lennon, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2001.
“It must be good to die in Toronto. The transition between life and death would be continuous, painless and scarcely noticeable in this silent town. I dreaded the Sundays and prayed to God that if he chose for me to die in Toronto, he would let it be on a Saturday afternoon to save me from one more Toronto Sunday.”

Source : Leopold Infeld (1980). “Quest: An Autobiography”, p.324, American Mathematical Soc.
“It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.”

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