"I think of painting without subject matter as music without words."

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Kenneth Noland

#Thinking Quotes #Matter Quotes #Painting Quotes

“I learned that a healthy society is made up of loving, trusting individuals, and that these individuals in turn protect their environment, become stewards of our land, air and water, and they make peace, rather than war.”

Source : "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“When the legislation that passed in the farm bill that says that itâ€™s a federal crime to watch animals fight or to induce someone else to watch an animal fight but itâ€™s not a federal crime to induce somebody to watch people fighting, thereâ€™s something wrong with the priorities of people that think like that.”

Source : "GOP congressman Steve King accused of 'in-your-face racism' after he said non-white 'subgroups' had not contributed to civilization". www.dailymail.co.uk. July 19, 2016.
“When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.”
“Do not pray to marry the one that you love, but to love the one that you marry.”
“Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague as I most always did, when I was attacked by an illness never before experienced, which manifested itself in chilliness and painful weariness of the whole body. In order to ease my condition I took up Euclid's Elements and read for the first time his doctrine of ratio, which I found treated there in a manner entirely new to me. The ingenuity displayed in Euclid's presentation filled me with such vivid pleasure, that forthwith I felt as well as ever.”
“Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.”
“Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.”

Source : "Gun litigation follows example of tobacco cases" by Kathleen Koch, www.cnn.com. June 6, 1999.
“Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.”

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