#bj

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#attack #color #different #different directions #directions

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#ever #first #must #nothing #objections

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#information #kinds #know #knowledge #ourselves

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#down #drawing #essence #form #good

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#attack #intimidate #into #leading #make

Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#along #any #being #being done #done

I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#especially #europe #i #important #know

The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#develop #first #flights #going #later

I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors! ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#former #heard #i #i think #leaders

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#conscientious #day #distant #does #enjoys