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If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has a different justification: I see the motif, the way I painted it, is somehow ugly or unbearable. Then I try to follow my feelings and make it attractive. And that means a process of painting, changing or destroying – for however long it takes – until I think it has improved. And I don't demand an explanation from myself as to why this is so. (Gerhard Richter)
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in the gap between the two) View quote
Robert Rauschenberg
Love has no limitations. It cannot be measured. It has no boundaries. Although many have tried, love is indefinable. View quote
Steve Maraboli
Better to try understanding the sun than a woman. View quote
Robert Jordan
For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon. View quote
Robert Jordan
If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs. View quote
Robert Jordan
I killed the whole world, and you can too, if you try hard. View quote
Robert Jordan
Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it. View quote
Robert Jordan
If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose. View quote
Robert Jordan
My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland. It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became very well-known in the world; that it was used in many troubled places. I think the policies of these countries are to blame, not the designers. Man is born to protect his family, his children, his wife. But I want you to know that apart from armaments, I have written three books in which I try to educate our youth to show respect for their families, for old people, for history. View quote
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Socialists try to convince us that the tea becomes sweet not because of sugar, but because of mixing. (Janusz Korwin-Mikke)
I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him. View quote
Liv Tyler
Yes I have smoked crack cocaine. But, no, do I? Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Um, probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago. View quote
Rob Ford
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. View quote
Pope Paul VI
I have tried to draw the human effigy (and all the other subjects dealt with in my paintings) in an immediate and effective way without any reference to the aesthetic. View quote
Jean Dubuffet
Besides, I try to judge things for myself; to judge wrong, I think, is more honourable than not to judge at all. View quote
Henry James
If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible. View quote
Matthew Perry (actor)
The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that. View quote
Ben Kingsley
I always try to find something I admire about every character I play. (Ben Kingsley)
The cross is a very powerful symbol and it symbolizes suffering, but it also is connected to a person who was loving and sharing and his message was about unconditional love. I tried to take a powerful image and use it to draw attention to a situation that needs attention. For me, we all need to be Jesus in our time. Jesus' message was to love your neighbor as yourself and these are people in need. View quote
Madonna (entertainer)
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work. View quote
John von Neumann
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher. View quote
Teresa of Ávila
It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants. View quote
Matt Damon