Alive Quote by Ellsworth Kelly Download Open image “I believe people have to be open to what's happening when they're alive.” — Ellsworth Kelly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alive Believe Believe People Happening Alive Happenings I believe Open Open Happening People People Open
I think people don't think or talk about death very much. I don't think we're very open about it, at least in my experience. — Charlotte Ritchie Copy Share Image
Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying. — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
Most people hold onto what could happen instead of what's really happening. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point in time. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The living have their eyes opened by closing the eyes of the dead. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we know it's happening, and we're not having the discussion, we're contributing to the problem of making it seem like people can't open… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
People see life as a game and go on not knowing what happens. People die everyday young and old. You never know when it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think whatever's happening in my life, everyone is just open to hearing about it because at one point or another, you're probably going… — Alex Cooper Copy Share Image
I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets better and… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I have worked to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a definite relationship to the… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes - I call them flashes,… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or square. I am less… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I only like artists older than myself. Time is so important. It's always been the same way, I guess. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Matisse draws what I call the essence of the plants. He leaves a shape open. He'll do a leaf and not close it. Everybody… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
All my work begins with drawings. I don’t labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. I like to be… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today. — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive. — James Haven Copy Share Image
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound. — Maureen Duffy Copy Share Image
I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image