"(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)"

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Kate Atkinson

#Brain Quotes #Half Quotes #Existential Quotes

“We had been affected by the fact that the film world was a man's world in Europe as much as here, in America actually.”

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“When I was in high school I found literature and history interesting, but science not at all. Literature and history obviously involved thinking, but science seemed to be all about memorizing facts and doing mindless calculations.”
“The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound (pitch and intensity) depends on the manner in which you hold and apply the bow. The same goes for the gesture of applying paint to a surface.”
“It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.”
“God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull.”
“Often, very often, I am alone. My studio in Amsterdam, (Beckmann lived in the center of Amsterdam during World War 2.) an enormous old tobacco storeroom is again filled in my imagination with figures from the old days and from the new, like an ocean moved by storm and sun and always present in my thoughts. Then shapes become beings and seem comprehensible to me in the great void and uncertainty of the space which I call god.”

Source : "On my painting". Max Beckmann's Speech during the exhibition 'Twentieth-Century German Art', London, July 21, 1938.
“What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.”
“There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough.”

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