"To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that."

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Source : "Gerhard Richter - Painting". Documentary, 2011.

Gerhard Richter

#Painting Quotes #Language Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“I grew up in a place that felt very integrated.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes from herself, and it is her own motions which affect her. As for the contingencies of fortune, they are either great or little, according to the opinion she has of her own strength.”
“The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.”
“The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master.”
“I like to have a massage therapist come to my house, get a massage, take a bath, go to bed. That's a perfect night alone for me.”

Source : "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Stacy Keibler". Esquire Interview, www.esquire.com. March 2, 2011.
“When I was a child, I thought of my Delta town as the center of the universe, but now I realize how little I know about the universe. As a child, I thought I was immortal, but now I recognize how limited a time we all have. As a child, success meant scoring A on every exam, but now I take it to mean good health, close family and friends, achieve- ments in my work, and helping others.”

Source : Ahmed H. Zewail (2002). “Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize”, p.236, World Scientific
“Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?”
“We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason, or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us.”

Source : Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing

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