My Work Quotes

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What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. — Max Beckmann
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work. — Thom Mayne
I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids. — Bill Gates
The idea that I'm a homosexual thrill killer, that I stroll down the streets and stalk young boys and slaughter them... Hell, if you could… — John Wayne Gacy
I think that other people covering my work is really exciting... Im really open to that kind of thing because I think interpretation is an… — Tori Amos
I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I… — Sharon Olds
I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the… — Mother Teresa
I was asked why I did not give a rod with which to fish, in the hands of the poor, rather than give the fish… — Mother Teresa
Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel. It's one area… — Graham Swift
All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had… — Alberto Giacometti
If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is… — Ludwig Feuerbach
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line… — Michael Connelly
My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the… — Roy Lichtenstein
Pop Art is industrial painting. I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it's what all the world will soon become.… — Roy Lichtenstein
As far as my opinion on galleries, I think they are a great thing .I see them as another outlet. I'm sure by now you've… — Unknown Author
I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces. — Maurice Ravel
I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional… — Meryl Streep
My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from… — Meryl Streep
I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced… — Thomas A. Edison
I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother… — Lynda Barry
As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the… — Joseph Stiglitz
My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it… — George Grosz
Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at… — Louis Pasteur
Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that… — Flannery O'Connor
I never went into business just to make money - but I found that if I have fun, the money will come. I often ask… — Richard Branson

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