#mate

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#artist #contact #creates #creation #different

My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, I'd visit him every day. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#cremated #day #every #every day #him

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#egg #goes #inanimate #life #something

Be polite to all, but intimate with few. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#intimate #polite

Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be? ↗

— Billy Joel

#could #good #how #i #material

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#between #chasm #creator #every #experiences

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking. ↗

— Max Bill

#basic #basic idea #closer #comprehensive #idea

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#differently #him #part #people #played

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#actually #agree #climate #like #more

Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#chance #had #homicide #i #material