#impetus

Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms. ↗

— Milton Avery

#blowing #changing #colors #drama #fantasy

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#birth #birth control #control #education #give

While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus. ↗

— Andrew Solomon

#humility #impetus #motivations #prejudice #truth

I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#hope #i #impetus #millennium #nations

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#became #conceptual #conceptual art #gave #idea

Most people didn't have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#am #audience #back #bandwidth #behind

That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't. ↗

— Debbie Harry

#because #get #hadn #i #impetus