“People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
Mo Yan (1955) Chinese novelist
two quotes by Braque, in 'Les Problèmes de la Peinture', interview with Gaston Diehl Paris 1945
1921 - 1945
“People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
Mo Yan (1955) Chinese novelist
“.. people always talk about painting, because basically painting does not talk.”
Karel Appel (1921–2006) Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet
Karel Appel defines his painting', interview 1968
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) French painter
young Lautrec comments his own paintings of the landscape, when he was c. 15 years old.
Source: 1879-1884, T-Lautrec, by Henri Perruchot, p. 46 - remark to his friend Etienne Devismes - in Nice, 1879
“Instrumentation is to music precisely what color is to painting.”
Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) French Romantic composer
Cette face de l’instrumentation est exactement, en musique, ce que le coloris est en peinture. <br class="br">A travers chants (1862), ch. 1 http://www.hberlioz.com/Writings/ATC01.htm; Elizabeth Csicsery-Rónay (trans.) The Art of Music and Other Essays (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994) p. 5.
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist
What do you mean by you?"
volume I; lecture 8, "Motion"; section 8-1, "Description of motion"; p. 8-2
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)
Gerhard Richter (1932) German visual artist, born 1932
Quote, 1970's; from the documentary 'Gerhard Richter - Painting', Corrinna Belz, 2011
1970's
Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)
“I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.”
Mitt Romney (1947) American businessman and politician
2012-05-17
Mitt Romney stands by invocation of Rev. Wright
Greg
Sargent
The Plum Line
The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/i-stand-by-what-i-said-whatever-it-was/2012/05/17/gIQADnyhWU_blog.html
2012-10-03
posed question: "When you did an interview with Sean Hannity in February, you said that you believed that Obama is trying to make America a less Christian nation. It was responding to quote that he had just played for you on the radio. Do you stand by that?"
regarding Romney saying "And I'm not sure which is worse, him listening to Reverend Wright or him saying that we must be a less Christian nation.", referring to Obama's 2006 statement, "Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation — at least, not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers."
2012