#pure

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#good #good people #high #home #hugging

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. ↗

— O. Henry

#american #day #one day #ours #purely

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing. ↗

— Jim Henson

#access #almost #assisting #audience #bridge

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#bright #cheerfully #clothes #finest #full

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#art #art forms #art history #cinema #culmination

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality. ↗

— Jim Hodges

#color #expression #form #me #purest

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#abstract art #aesthetic #art #aware #become

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#almost #along #any #becomes #business

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#art #conception #contemporary #decorative #deny

Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#gasoline #holding #lips #may #mouth