"I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do."

-- Michael Heizer

#Art Quotes #Static Quotes

“I have loved, cried, been mad with happiness. I have won and I have lost.”

Source : "Anita Ekberg, International Screen Beauty, Dies at 83" by Anita Gates, www.nytimes.com. January 11, 2015.
“Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?”
“I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.”
“Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.”
“I have no idea what my limits are. I believe that if I set my mind to it, within the next fifteen years, I would be the President of the United States.”
“Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.”
“I am from many places. I am from a hike across Tuscany...waves of golden wheat undulating on the hills...tractors plowing new vineyards...taxi drivers yelling, "Bella!" I am from a canoe motoring through marshes in the Amazon outside Manaus, Brazil... Jacana birds taking flight as we pass houses on stilts... giant trees and lily pads...and giggling children jumping into the lake for a swim during a downpour, while I stand unbelievably drenched but baptized by a oneness of spirit.”
“I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one's old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers.”

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