Still Life Quotes
71 quotes by 67 authors
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What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to…
— Chuck Close
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There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things…
— Aimee Semple McPherson
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I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always…
— Giorgio Morandi
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Five years from the date of the attack that changed our world, we've come back to remember the valor of those we lost-those who innocently…
— Rudy Giuliani
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When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged…
— Arthur Koestler
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For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of…
— Ruth Bernhard
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If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still
— Samuel Johnson
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The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.
— Albert Einstein
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Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.
— Michael Strahan
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My brother Mark still lives in the house we grew up in.
— Joan Van Ark
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure.
— Henri Matisse
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I’m amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.
— Fiona Apple
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The spirit of Lincoln still lives; that spirit born of the teachings of the Nazarene, who promised mercy to the merciful, who lifted the lowly,…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still lives, that God still observes, ... still reigns. Faith is…
— Arthur W. Pink
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We must do jobs we detest because we are part of an organized society, and if everyone did what they wanted to do, the world…
— Paulo Coelho
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Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude studies and still…
— Brassai
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On Christ, and what he has done, my soul hangs for time and eternity. And if your soul also hangs there, it will be saved…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging…
— Richard Corliss
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For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on,…
— Edward Kennedy
Who Wrote These Still Life Quotes
67 authors contributed a total of 71 Still Life Quotes, led by these top contributors: