"We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken."

-- Malcolm Gladwell

#Needs Quotes #Looks Quotes #Subtle Quotes

“Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.”

Source : "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". Book by Yves Klein, ed. J & J. pp. 55-57, 1974.
“Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.”
“The two teachers that I had in the Art Institute who affected me the most were Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann; Kathleen Blackshear because she taught a class called design - I can't remember, design something, and in this class - it met once a week - we would do work centered around some theme, word or subject or technique or whatever, and bring it in for a three-hour discussion. And Kathleen was able, in watching and looking at our work, to direct us to all kinds of things which might relate to what we were trying to do, but she never attempted to tell us what to do.”
“I do feel a responsibility because most people like me that are my age or younger, they don't quite make it over to the jazz side. They flirt with it, but they don't quite marry it.”
“The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. It is related to the outburst of violence in human society. To save the natural world today means to save what is human in humanity.”
“Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.”
“It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.”
“When I went to Egypt right after 9/11 I was very upset. I used to live in Egypt. I had a lot of friends there. I spent two years teaching there. I had very fond feelings for that part of the world, and the fact that a culture I liked so much had attacked my own culture was really very upsetting to me.”

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