Cecily Brown Quotes

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look at them, the more satisfying they become for the viewer. The more time you give to the painting, the more you get back.

Cecily Brown

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TimeWalkPastPaintingImpossible

I have always maintained that it's not the quantity of work, but the quality that should speak. I have maintained the same for my music albums, too. I have always released them after a gap of two to three years.

Adnan Sami

WorkMusicQualitySpeakThreeSame

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Joel Osteen

FaithPeopleThinkEasyI Think

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.

Andre Malraux

MePaintingListeningEveningYou

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Robert Green Ingersoll

MountainsCloudsPresenceEternity

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.

Anita Diament

KnowSeeBoneLittleLinesEnglish

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

Michael Ignatieff

PatriotismSocietySecretSuccessful

Parikrma aims to give underprivileged children an equal chance at education so they can integrate with kids of private schools and, later, with the society. I want these children to hold high-end jobs at multinational companies and not work at the lower end of the spectrum.

Shukla Bose

WorkEducationChildrenSocietyEnd

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Roland Barthes

PassionImageWantsPublicItself

My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The only thing they told me was that I had to wait until I was 18 so I could get my education out of the way first.

Rumer Willis

EducationParentsMeWaitSurprise

Making government more efficient and more effective need not be a partisan issue.

Martin O'Malley

GovernmentMoreNeedMakingPartisan

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

Moira Kelly

SuccessCollegeThinkWayMy Own

Businesses will ultimately go where the markets and opportunities are.

Lloyd Blankfein

OpportunitiesGoWillWhereMarkets

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