Becomes Quotes

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I try to photograph people's spirits and thoughts. As to the soul-taking by the photographer, I don't feel I take away, but rather that the… — Yousuf Karsh
My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good… — Richard Avedon
The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it becomes compulsive, or… — Minor White
A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which… — Justin Winsor
It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else. — Margaret Atwood
He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt. — Samuel Johnson
The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to… — Carl Jung
A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience. — Carl Jung
Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what… — William James
It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary… — John Stuart Mill
A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish. — Karl Marx
The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control — Martin Heidegger
A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow. While it retains its visibility, it loses its… — Hannah Arendt
In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone. — Unknown Author
History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a… — Jimmy Carter
Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid. — Ronald Reagan
When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is… — Sol LeWitt
Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers. — Les Baxter
There is an energy within... pure strength... the energy of the person which is put in different forms, in different shapes... once we discover that… — Katherine Dunham
When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill… — Tennessee Williams
Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking… — Robert Rauschenberg
The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for… — Wassily Kandinsky
The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. — Sol LeWitt
I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can… — Willem de Kooning
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He… — Willem de Kooning

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