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Ellsworth Kelly Quotes

I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets better and richer.

Ellsworth Kelly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 31, 1923 - December 27, 2015

Topics

Color Better You Oil Paint Coat

As any Brit will understand, things get a little easier when you don't have to be number one any more. Really, the fall of an empire is not as bad as everyone thinks. It's like retirement. People fear retirement, but it can turn out be rather pleasant.

Fear People Retirement You Fall Bad

It's a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.

People Process Political Shame Take

I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect - but I think I might need to go back to school for that.

Matthew James Thomas

Myself Day School Building Think Go

Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.

Robert Baden-Powell

Nothing Christianity Than Less

I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.'

Juan Felipe Herrera

Painting Writing Think Design You

There is a porous membrane between a documentary that doesn't use interviews and what you would call a neorealist hybrid film.

You Call Film Documentary Interviews

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

Work Love Great Time Travel People

I require a lot of stimulation, and there's so much I've learned being in front of the camera, I felt like I had more to give behind it.

Camera More Being Give Behind Like

This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.

Sweet Blessed Champion Dawn America

Class is a big issue here. And some people get picked on more than others. I think we probably do. I mean, it doesn't help that we wear waistcoats and tweed the whole time. But there is a reverse snobbishness in England towards that sort of stuff. And I think that's one of the reasons we really enjoy America, 'cos we're classless.

Winston Marshall

Time People Think America Help Mean

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

Think You Person Conscience Fine

Because my man is handsome and successful, that makes me a gold digger? First of all, I pay my own bills, and I still pay my own bills. But if your man is gonna give you a gift, you're gonna accept it. I'm not gonna be like, 'No, can you please take back the Louis Vuitton purse?' Absolutely not.

Man Me Gold Gift Handsome You

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