Maria Lassnig Quotes

I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel at a given moment. I was sitting in a chair and felt it pressing against me. I still have the drawings where I depicted the sensation of sitting.

Maria Lassnig

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: austrian
  • Birth: September 8, 1919 - May 6, 2014

Topics

TimeMomentMePaintingFeelChair

When you reach my age, you understand that you are a player with skin in the game, no matter what game it is.

Jerry Weintraub

AgeGameReachYouSkinUnderstand

Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children.

John Gibbon

WomenChildrenGriefRoseForgetUs

Initially, I wanted to write middle grade. YA scared me: there's a lot of responsibility in being a YA author. It's so important to give that age range the right books that reflect their world and show them themselves.

Angie Thomas

AgeResponsibilityMeWorldRight

In places like Glasgow and Newcastle, audiences have a tradition of being amusingly combative. But they're not trying to ruin the act, they're trying to give you a challenge. It's like a cat playing with a mouse - the cat doesn't want the mouse to die, it wants to keep it alive for its own amusement and to be entertained by its struggle.

Stewart Lee

ChallengeStruggleDieTryingYou

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

Steve Yzerman

LongBackWayKidLong WayGoing

When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue; you look for somebody who knows the terrain. It's about context.

Rory Stewart

MountainDoingYouLookContext

It's hard to focus on a fight when your heart is broken and you're not happy in your relationship, especially if that's your coach. That's like fighting without one leg.

Rose Namajunas

RelationshipHeartFocusBrokenYou

I went to the London School of Economics to study sociology and psychology on a serviceman's grant.

Ron Moody

SchoolEconomicsSociologyLondon

Everyone has a different impression of what they are eating; not everyone tastes the same things, and definitely, not everyone has the same food memories.

Johnny Iuzzini

MemoriesFoodEatingSameEveryone

I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.

Dennis Rodman

GreatBirdSmartGameGotGive

I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.

Doris Lessing

LifeI AmMy LifeNeverAlwaysAm

Designers from Milan think that 'more is more,' like Cavalli and Dolce & Gabbana.

Coco Rocha

ThinkMoreLikeMilanDesigners

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