#ink

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#people #prevent #read #simply #themselves

Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope. ↗

— Jet Li

#arts #chinese #chinese culture #chinese people #culture

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#21st century #awareness #buildings #century #civic

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know? ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#i think #kind #know #most #painters

I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up looking at my pictures. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#his #i #influence #like #look

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#abstract art #another #art #even #everybody

Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#been #expressionist #five #forget #how

You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#hard #idea #just #know #music

Since the trade, I was just thinking about this day and mentally preparing to not get too excited. I knew I was going to have some extra adrenalin out there so I was really doing what I needed to do just to stay calm, you know, just try not to do too much. ↗

— Cory Lidle

#adrenalin #calm #day #doing #excited

I urge the Bush Administration to rethink its priorities. We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#administration #being #being prepared #bush #bush administration