Common Quote by Mark Rothko Download Open image “This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.” — Mark Rothko ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common Common sense Fancy Imagination This world World
Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Nonsense and common sense are the twins that nourish imagination and creativity. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“As the sociologist Ann Swidler has observed, “common sense”is really just deeply embedded culture: “the set of assumptions so unselfconscious as to seem a… — Thomas E. Ricks Copy Share Image
It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking. — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending this silence… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can only be explored by those willing to take the risks. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When you have a cavity in your tooth and you let it get worse, eventually you have to get a root canal. If you… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image