#seek

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want. ↗

— Gustav Klimt

#alone #am #artist #attentively #i

This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes. ↗

— Aaron Klug

#basic understanding #does #field #glamorous #immediate

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#man #old #seeking #something

I conclude where I began, I was elected by the people of Australia to do a job. I was not elected by the factional leaders of Australia, of the Australian Labor Party to do a job - though they may be seeking to do a job on me, that's a separate matter. The challenge therefore is to honour the mandate given to me by the Australian people. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#australian #began #by the people #challenge #conclude

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#poetry #seeking #sources #spirit

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#because #change #conservative #crimes #culture

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. ↗

— John Ruskin

#ideal #positive #reality #seeking #study

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#charming #differs #fact #feared #great

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#been #condemn #drive #history #men

I'm not seeking out genre films, but this just came my way, and Miramax was good enough to add a role for me because we wanted the chance to work together. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#because #came #chance #enough #films