Robert Irwin Quotes

If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye works. So if you want to paint a really good red painting, you have to strategically place in some green, so the eye is brought back.

Robert Irwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 12, 1928

Topics

GoodRedPaintingGreenEyeYou

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Jimmy Carter

HateComplacencySeePrevailChrist

Share your true stories.

Megan Shull

TrueShareYourStories

As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are willing to take.

John Lanchester

BusinessRisksPeopleRestaurant

Many artists give up after a while.

Angie Stone

UpGiveArtistsManyAfterWhile

Certain foods, such as meat, appear to harbour toxic bacteria - known as endotoxins - that can trigger inflammation in your arteries, even when food is fully cooked.

Michael Greger

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I've always been a conservative first.

Steve Scalise

ConservativeFirstAlwaysBeen

Sometimes it's the detours which turn out to be the fruitful ideas.

Roger Penrose

IdeasSometimesTurnOutFruitful

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

Robin Wright

MotherConfidenceMeMomWhatever

When James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces' turned out to be largely bunk, critics everywhere secretly rejoiced. They knew it, they said.

Michelle Dean

SaidCriticsOutLittlePiecesKnew

One day I went up to my mom and I said, 'Mom, can I have permission to build a 2.3-million electron-volt atom smasher - a betatron - in the garage?' And my mom stared at me, and she said, 'Sure. Why not? And don't forget to take out the garbage.'

Michio Kaku

DayMeMomSaidForgetBuild

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

Dennis Cardoza

ChildrenMyselfProblemsParentSeen

Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.

Corrine Brown

LifeFightTearsReadyWayPossible

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