Wall Quotes
3017 Wall quotes by 1990 unique authors
-
I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even…
— Vincent Van Gogh
-
The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.
— Thomas Haynes Bayly
-
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
— Ursula K. Le Guin
-
The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other times,…
— Roger von Oech
-
The pictures on the walls aren't like movies. They don't move, they don't talk, and they'll last longer. They will last longer.
— David Hockney
-
Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
-
A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
-
Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the…
— Bryan Procter
-
There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on…
— Ingmar Bergman
-
It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh…
— Ben Shahn
-
Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude colors of the…
— Maurice de Vlaminck
-
Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to…
— Mervyn Peake
-
One of the things Wall Street does not like is ambiguity. Now that the agreement is there, it begins to make the future look a…
— Philip M. Condit
-
I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country...
— Susan Cain
-
When I talked with an opposing coach before a game and he mentions the pink walls, I know I've got him. I can't recall a…
— Hayden Fry
-
It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who…
— Patrick Geddes
-
You can't change the bricks, and together, you still have to build a wall.
— Chris Hadfield
-
Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is…
— Abdallah II
-
The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around…
— Wassily Kandinsky
-
Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my…
— Sol LeWitt
-
The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling…
— Jack White
-
Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.
— Frank Yerby
-
When you see something special, something inspired, you realise the debt we owe great curators and their unforgettable shows - literally unforgettable because you remember…
— Charles Saatchi
-
I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world..…
— Walid Jumblatt
-
Fat slips through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream where it distributes the nutrients throughout the body. Olestra can't get through the wall, and…
— Michael F. Jacobson
Who Wrote These Wall Quotes
1,990 authors contributed a total of 3,017 Wall Quotes, led by these top contributors: