"This theme of bigness â€” all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since."

-- Michael Heizer

#Theme Quotes #Painter Quotes

“Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.”
“I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.”
“What's the difference in opening from scratch in Philly or opening from scratch in New York? The old out-of-town tryout circuit - taking the show pre-Broadway to cities like Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia, Washington - has sort of been replaced with the amount of workshops we do.”
“Man must begin to the unitary principle of man - knowing that there are not separate men or separate individuals, but hat the whole man idea is one. He must know that all mankind is connected with every other part of mankind, all geared together by the one omnipresent Light of God which centers all as ONE and motivates all as ONE. Until man knows that separation from God is impossible, even for one second, he does not begin to have knowledge.”
“I believe in the utmost importance of one human being's actions toward another. This is actually what I believe in. How we handle one another, that's what makes us feel isolated, feel like outsiders sometimes. These questions are overwhelming. "What do you do in this world?" I believe in that more than anything.”
“Quotations cause all kinds of trouble.”
“All I care about is money and the city that I'm from.”
“I like to make sure that I'm believable. If I don't believe me, then there's a lot of people that don't believe me, but if I can believe that I'm doing it, then I know the audience will, too.”

Source : "Mekhi Phifer on Divergent, playing poker with Jeff Garlin, and dying on ER". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. August 25, 2014.

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