Quotes about want
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“I like you, but not too much. I don’t want to like anybody too much.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.”

Diana Vreeland (1903–1989) American magazine editor

Life

“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

“When I said I wanted to die in my sleep, I meant I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.”

Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) American speculative fiction writer

Source: The Great Book of Amber

Love, Making love, Sleep

“He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

Heart

“That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.”

Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

Learning

“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

Source: Alice Through the Looking Glass

“I've never wanted a quiet life.”

Lydia Cacho (1963) Mexican journalist

Life

“My house completed, and tried and not found wanting by a first Cape Cod year, I went there to spend a fortnight in September. The fortnight ending, I lingered on, and as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me that I could not go. The world to-day is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot. In my world of beach and dunes these elemental presences lived and had their being, and under their arch there moved an incomparable pageant of nature and the year.”

Henry Beston (1888–1968) American writer

Source: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

World, Beauty, Autumn, Nature

“If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children.”

Terry Pratchett book Snuff

Source: Snuff

Children, People, Girl, Learning

“People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

People

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”

Andy Rooney (1919–2011) writer, humorist, television personality

Deep, Happy, Business, Mountain

“They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.”

Virginia Woolf book To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

Children, Nature

“That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

“Have strength in yourself always. think and remember not just what you should do, but also what you want to do. (Ageha, Basara, Vol. 13)”

Yumi Tamura Manga artist

Source: Basara, Vol. 13

Thinking

“I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.”

D.H. Lawrence book Women in Love

Source: Women in Love

Effort

“They wouldn't fire me. Even the salesmen liked me. They were robbing the boss out the back door but I didn't say anything. That was their little game. It didn't interest me. I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.”

Charles Bukowski book Post Office

Variant: I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing."
Source: Post Office (1971)

World

“Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.”

Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Source: Dead Beat

People, History, Time

“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Life, Problem

“Some grief shows much of love,
But much of grief shows still some want of wit.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

Love

“If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.”

Paul Beatty (1962) American writer

World

“A man who wants to make a relationship work will move mountains to keep the
woman he loves”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Relationship, Love, Mountain

“I think," he said, "I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.”

Terry Pratchett book Small Gods

Source: Small Gods

Thinking, Fight

“If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.”

Joan Crawford (1904–1977) American actress

Girl

“I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.”

H.P. Lovecraft book Old Bugs

Source: Old Bugs

Life

“I feel like I should probably ask you to leave. But I don’t really want you to go. I want you to stay, but I know you shouldn’t.
- Hope”

Rachel Gibson (1961) American writer

Source: True Confessions

Hope, Feeling

“When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

People, Thinking, Time

“It's been interesting, "Frostpine said casually. "I wanted Daja to get some experience of other smiths'-and other mages'- ways of doing things, if only so she can see mine is best.”

Tamora Pierce book Cold Fire

Source: Cold Fire

Way

“Sometimes,” Robert said, “you choose whom you want to be with when you’re too young, and you change, and they don’t change with you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Change

“I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.”

Diane Ackerman (1948) Author, poet, naturalist

On Extended Wings (1985)

Life

“yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Music, Help, Fight

“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”

Blaise Pascal Pensées

Source: Pensées

“NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR?
Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty, neither.”

Terry Pratchett book Hogfather

Source: Hogfather

Death

“Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.”

Gerald G. Jampolsky (1925) American writer and psychiatrist

Source: Love Is Letting Go of Fear

Peaceful, Peace, Change

“Belief means not wanting to know what is true.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book The Antichrist

Sec. 52
The Antichrist (1888)
Variant: Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.

Faith

“I want you to believe… to believe in things that you cannot.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

“A study in the Washington Post says that women have
better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the
authors of that study: 'Duh.”

Conan O'Brien (1963) American television show host and comedian

Women, Men, Study, Funny

“Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Pain

“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

love, Women, Way

“I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

Ich bin Leben, das leben will, inmitten von Leben, das leben will. Reverence for Life (1969) Source: Die Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben http://books.google.pl/books?id=q7MCqUIN7hkC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, C.H.Beck, 2008, p. 111

Life

“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist

1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)

Happy, Parting, Happiness

“I want to do something splendid…
Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead…
I think I shall write books.”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

Books, Thinking, Dead

“The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

Source: Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

People, World

“I try to be good but sometimes
a person just has to break out and
act like the wild and springy thing
one used to be. It's impossible not
to remember wild an want it back.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Personality

“He says every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind if you want to see it.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

The Refuge of the Derelicts (unpublished manuscript written 1905–1906) Source: Google Books link https://books.google.com/books?id=uLfR7-ETm0MC&pg=PA326&dq=%22every+man+is+a+moon%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMIn_iGm83gyAIVTedjCh0LwAap#v=onepage&q&f=false

“I only fear danger where I want to fear it.”

Franz Kafka book The Metamorphosis

Source: The Metamorphosis

Fear

“He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

Source: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Health, Way, Drink

“Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

Animals

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”

Les Brown (1945) American politician

Life, Business, Graduation, Life

“What more could you want? How about dominion over this 'beautiful place'? Beauty doesn't last. Friends and family decay. Power is the only thing that goes on forever."
Jack answered with his gut. "No, love goes on forever.”

P. C. Cast book Awakened

Source: Awakened

Love, Family, Beauty

“Dale: "No, no--curse it, Beka, you're the prickliest woman I've ever met!"
Goodwin: "No, I am. But she comes very close, I have to say."
— Dale Rowan and Clara Goodwin when Beka didn't want to accept money for being Dale's "luck”

Tamora Pierce book Bloodhound

Source: Bloodhound

Money

“I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.”

Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) American poet, art critic and writer

Love, Men

“What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion.”

Julian Barnes (1946) English writer

Love

“If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.”

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress

Attitude, Behavior, Change

“Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature.”

Rainer Maria Rilke book Letters to a Young Poet

Letter Ten (26 December 1908)
Letters to a Young Poet (1934)

Art, Way, Literature

“Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.
That is exactly what things were originally made for.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.”

Tom Landry (1924–2000) Coach of the Dallas Cowboys

“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

People, Business

“No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!”

T.D. Jakes (1957) American bishop

God

“if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”

Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

“I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

World

“It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

Happiness

“I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Girl

“I've never really been wanted.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

“Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

Evil

“She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Way

“If you want a lover
I'll do anything you ask me to.
And if you want another kind of love
I'll wear a mask for you.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

"I'm Your Man"
I'm Your Man (1988)

Love, Lovers

“We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

Learning

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Widely attributed to Lincoln, this appears to be derived from Thomas Carlyle's general comment below, but there are similar quotes about Lincoln in his biographies. Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. Thomas Carlyle (1841) On Heroes and Hero Worship. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. Horatio Alger (1883), Abraham Lincoln: The Backwoods Boy; or, How a Young Rail-Splitter became President Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never used it except on the side of mercy. Robert G. Ingersoll (1883), Unity: Freedom, Fellowship and Character in Religion, Volume 11, Number 3, The Exchange Table, True Greatness Exemplified in Abraham Lincoln, by Robert G. Ingersoll (excerpt), Quote Page 55, Column 1 and 2, Chicago, Illinois. ( Google Books Full View https://books.google.com/books?id=JUIrAAAAYAAJ&q=%22man+really%22#v=snippet&) If you want to discover just what there is in a man — give him power. Francis Trevelyan Miller (1910), Portrait Life of Lincoln: Life of Abraham Lincoln, the Greatest American Any man can handle adversity. If you truly want to test a man's character, give him power. Attributed in the electronic game Infamous Misattributed

Leadership, For Men, Men

“I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.”

Saul Bellow book Seize the Day

Source: Seize the Day

People, Thinking, Sleep, Suffering

“Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

Death, Feeling

“Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?"
-Frizz mizuno”

Scott Westerfeld book Extras

Source: Extras

Lie, Personality

“What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very
different things.”

P.G. Wodehouse book Right Ho, Jeeves

Source: Right Ho, Jeeves

“Some people want it all
But I don't want nothing at all
If it ain't you baby
If I ain't got you baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain't got you, Yeah”

Alicia Keys (1981) American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress

Source: Alicia Keys: Unplugged

People, Baby

“I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. - The sea witch.”

Hans Christian Andersen book The Little Mermaid

Source: The Little Mermaid

Stupidity, Way, Princess, Sea

“I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married”

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer

Way

“I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.”

Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution

From a personal conversation, quoted from memory by Maxim Gorky in "V.I. Lenin" (1924) http://www.marxists.org/archive/gorky-maxim/1924/01/x01.htm  Attributions Context: I know of nothing better than the Appassionata and could listen to it every day. What astonishing, superhuman music! It always makes me proud, perhaps with a childish naiveté, to think that people can work such miracles! … But I can’t listen to music very often, it affects my nerves. I want to say sweet, silly things, and pat the little heads of people who, living in a filthy hell, can create such beauty. These days, one can’t pat anyone on the head nowadays, they might bite your hand off. Hence, you have to beat people's little heads, beat mercilessly, although ideally we are against doing any violence to people. Hm — what a devillishly difficult job!

People, Stupidity, Beauty, Music

“For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.”

May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist

Feeling, Flowers, Reading

“I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Peace, Night

“Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.”

Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms

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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)

“You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants a magical solution to their problem, and everyone refuses to believe in magic.”

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

Though written in contemporary idiomatic English, this has been recently cited on the Internet on various "quotations" websites (and elsewhere) as having being written by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland [sic]. However, it does not appear within the text of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-Glass. It was actually a line spoken by a character named Jefferson in Once Upon a Time (TV series) in a 2012 episode entitled "Hat Trick," in which the literary character The Mad Hatter appears. – Ref: Internet Movie Database (IMDb), quotes from Once upon a Time, "Hat Trick" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2104520/quotes. Misattributed

World, Problem

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”

Rosalynn Carter (1927) Wife of the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter

Leadership, People

“You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Star

“I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

Beauty, Way, Sleep, Tree

“If you want to play, you gotta pay.”

Stephen King book Duma Key

Source: Duma Key

“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

People, Freedom

“We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

Future

“They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”

Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

“I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in… but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Source: Nausea

“Would you rather die, or be unwound? Now he finally knows the answer. Maybe this is what he wanted. Maybe it's why he stood there and taunted Roland. Because he'd rather be killed with a furious hand than dismembered with cool indifference.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

Indifference

“I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!”

Margaret Peterson Haddix Among the Hidden

Source: Among the Hidden

“When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

Family, Mother's Day

“He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”

Patrick Süskind (1949) German writer and screenwriter

Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

People

“You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

Source: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

Life

“Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Books

“I am staunchly opposed to presenting political opinions in mainstream comics. No manifestos from Spider-Man. The reader should be able to project themselves on these characters. That’s necessary when writing heroic escapist fiction. Superheroes are wish fulfillment characters. We want to be Superman. We hope we’re as principled as Captain America. It’s important that these characters portray only the most universal values.”

Chuck Dixon (1954) American comic book writer

TBU Exclusive: Chuck Dixon Talks The Batman Universe http://thebatmanuniverse.net/chuck-dixon/ (May 24, 2016)

Hope, Universe

“First principle: one must need to be strong — otherwise one will never become strong. — Those large hothouses [Treibhäuser] for the strong, for the strongest kind of human being that has ever been, the aristocratic commonwealths of the type of Rome or Venice, understood freedom exactly in the sense in which I understand the word freedom: as something one has and does not have, something one wants, something one conquers…”

Friedrich Nietzsche book Twilight of the Idols

Twilight of the Idols (1888)

Understanding, Sense, Freedom, Strong

“People come to Los Angeles and sell their soul every day. It’s sad. Here, the mentality is that everyone has a price. But I say no – no money can buy my soul. I’ve had so many offers that I didn’t think were proper and I’d say sorry, I don’t need it. I didn’t want to work my butt off and not be happy. I’ll always choose happiness and life over all the money in the world. Across my entire career, I had respect in the industry, because I was the one who never sold out.”

Fabio Lanzoni (1961) Italian model, actor and author

Fabio: confessions of the original male supermodel https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2015/jul/15/fabio-confessions-original-male-supermodel (July 15, 2015)

Life, Money, People, World

“To [aunt] Marie Hill,
Dearest
Why do you tempt me? I really cannot. It's impossible! Be happy? The only thought I have in my mind is to immerse myself in my art, to merge completely with it until I can begin to express what I really feel – and after that to be consumed even more by it. Even if I wanted to, I could not leave here [Worpswede]… I want to live here. I want to 'live' – and develop further as a person and as an artist… Can you understand this? I think you can. And do you approve? I hope so. In any case, I can't do any different..”

Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) German artist

In a letter to her aunt Mary Hill, from Worpswede, June 1899; as quoted in Paula Modersohn-Becker – The Letters and Journals, ed: Günther Busch & Lotten von Reinken; (transl, A. Wensinger & C. Hoey; Taplinger); Publishing Company, New York, 1983, p. 135
1899

Hope, Art, Feeling, Understanding

“After Herberholz had shown me all sorts of techniques, I suddenly got very interested in etching. I had a lot to say, I had a subject. Wash off the acid, put on the aquatint: a wonderful technique that you can use to get as many different shades and tones as you want. The 'doing' aspect of art becomes tremendously interesting when you start doing etchings; you get to be a real alchemist.”

Otto Dix (1891–1969) German painter and printmaker

Otto Dix quoted by Eva Karcher, in Otto Dix, New York: Crown Publishers, 1987, p. 22; as cited by Roy Forward, in 'Education resource material: beauty, truth and goodness in Dix's War' https://nga.gov.au/dix/edu.pdf, p. 10

Art

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