Hans Hofmann (1880–1966) American artist
As quoted in The Artist's Voice : Talks With Seventeen Modern Artists (1962) by Katharine Kuh, p. 118
1960s
The Pall-Bearer's Revue (1992)
Hans Hofmann (1880–1966) American artist
As quoted in The Artist's Voice : Talks With Seventeen Modern Artists (1962) by Katharine Kuh, p. 118
1960s
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
A Sea Dirge, st.1
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Aphorism (1937), p. 38
Attributed in posthumous publications, Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
Context: Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.
“I never wanted two things: money or to live outside Soviet Union.”
Lev Yashin (1929–1990) Soviet association football player
As quoted in Lev Yashin, the impregnable Spider https://www.fifa.com/news/lev-yashin-the-impregnable-spider.
“There's nothing I can't live with. Only things I won't live without.”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Shadowfever
“A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Comment on her sex symbol status, quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40
Context: That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing.
“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher