Quotes
Authors
Yves Tanguy
"I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods. Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it. Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work." --
Source : Yves Tanguy (1974). “Yves Tanguy: Catalog of an Exhibition November 7-December 7, 1974”
Yves Tanguy
#Art Quotes
#Believe Quotes
#Jealous Quotes
“Youth's the season made for joys, Love is then our duty.”
Source : 'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) act 2, sc. 4, air 22
“When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.”
“We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.”
“This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of one quarter of our adult population recalls the extremism of Prohibition, the last national crusade against a supposed social evil.”
“Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.”
“The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind....”
“Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.”
Source : "Electing the Conservatives is a risk we must not take" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2009.
“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.”