"The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a certain extent; I couldn't go on. It did one thing for me: it eliminated composition, arrangement, relationships, light - all this silly talk about line, colour and form - because that was the thing I wanted to get hold of."

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Source : Willem De Kooning, Gagosian Gallery (2004). “De Kooning: a centennial exhibition”

Willem de Kooning

#Silly Quotes #Light Quotes #Idols Quotes

“Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying that out loud, but the grim truth is you're going to be punished no matter what for the 'sin' of being female. Battering is the most commonly committed violent crime in the United States. That's a man beating a woman. Globally, half of all women will experience life-threatening violence from a man. Half. That's more hatred than I can comprehend. Right now, that battlefield is such a slaughter that we can't even collect our wounded.”
“It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.”
“To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye and yet, the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory.”
“May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.”

Source : Richard L. Evans (1973). “Richard L. Evans--the man and the message”
“It is important as a mentalist to notice small things about people... little things such as being able to tell if someone is right or left handed by looking at which way their belt is pointing. Looking at a book of matches will tell you if they are right or left handed by the side the matches are removed.... It's important to notice these things because the more you do, the more you will realize that each person has little psychological nuances that tell you a lot about the individual. Doing so will tremendously sharpen your skills.”

Source : John C. Maxwell (2011). “Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You”, p.302, Thomas Nelson Inc
“The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper.”
“I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist!”
“Leadership is about coping with change”

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