#ode

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#expressing #feelings #his #illustrating #modern

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#deeper #discover #i #i think #meanings

Moderates shouldn't be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he's laid it forward. He's fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#because #class #forward #fundamentally #go

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#fight #his #life #modes #right

Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#beginning #berlin #came #circumstances #civilization

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting. ↗

— Rob Portman

#code #interesting #longer #nearly #nine

We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: 'You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code.' ↗

— Rob Portman

#code #comes #congress #current #deal

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#certainly #close #creativity #heard #i

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#expression #genius #man #mode #right

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#artists #called #craft #does #gods