top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I'm famous. That's my job."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning."
Author Name
Personal Development
"King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance."
War
"Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture."
Art
"As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through."
Dream
"Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse."
Politics
"I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?"
Experience
"I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful."
Art
"Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it."
Desire
"I will either be famous or infamous."
Famous
"I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered."
Life
"All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time."
Art
bottom of page