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Lawrence Alloway - From the Modernism category:
Pop art is neither abstract nor realistic, though it has contacts in both directions. The core of pop art is at neither frontier. It is essentially, an art about signs and sign-systems. (Lawrence Alloway)
Lawrence Bixby - From the Difficulty category:
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too. (Lawrence Bixby)
Lawrence Calcagno - From the Dissatisfaction category:
As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied! This isn't greed, though it might be appetite. (Lawrence Calcagno)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Aging category:
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Artists category:
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art, with all that has wounded or defeated us in daily life... not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential – the imagination. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Freedom category:
I imagine, therefore I belong and am free. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Gender category:
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Genius category:
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Health category:
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Invention category:
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Jealousy category:
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Journey category:
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will – whatever we may think. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Life category:
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Loneliness category:
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Love category:
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Music category:
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Music category:
Music is only love looking for words. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Nature category:
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Satisfaction category:
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Travel category:
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Truth category:
Truth disappears with the telling of it. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Durrell - From the Writing category:
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else. (Lawrence Durrell)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Aging category:
I didn't know that painters and writers retired. They're like soldiers - they just fade away. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Art category:
The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it's the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it's a failure in communication. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Books category:
Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Communication category:
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Critics category:
Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Dissatisfaction category:
No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Imagination category:
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Intellect category:
If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Poetry category:
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Poetry category:
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Religion category:
I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Risk category:
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Shock category:
'I feel there is an angel in me,' she'd say,
'whom I am constantly shocking.' (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Spectator category:
It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something. (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - From the Wonder category:
I am awaiting / perpetually and forever / a renaissance of wonder (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Gowing - From the Expression category:
There have been times when I have found it easier to express what I have seen in the landscape in words rather than paint. (Lawrence Gowing)
Lawrence Gowing - From the Photography category:
Vermeer is alone in putting [the camera obscura] to the service of style rather than the accumulation of facts. (Lawrence Gowing)
Lawrence Hatterer - From the Blocks category:
Blocks produce in the artist an attitude of pessimism and defeat. He loses that necessary touch of arrogance; the drive to produce new things fades; the mind is blunted. (Lawrence Hatterer)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Artists category:
An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality. (D. H. Lawrence)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Awareness category:
Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness... meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object. (D. H. Lawrence)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Comprehension category:
Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that. (D. H. Lawrence)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Discovery category:
You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself. (D. H. Lawrence)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Eroticism category:
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. (D. H. Lawrence)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Friendship category:
One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one. (D. H. Lawrence)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Gender category:
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. (D. H. Lawrence)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Idealism category:
Away with ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law. (D. H. Lawrence)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Language category:
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder / That such trivial people should muse and thunder / In such lovely language. (D. H. Lawrence)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Love category:
You must always be a-waggle with LOVE. (D. H. Lawrence)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Modernism category:
I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories – and how contradictory they are – rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories. (D. H. Lawrence)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Morality category:
Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil. (D. H. Lawrence)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Passion category:
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. (D. H. Lawrence)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Photography category:
The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it. (D. H. Lawrence)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Religion category:
Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense. (D. H. Lawrence)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Repetition category:
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. (D. H. Lawrence)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Suffering category:
-in a letter to Catherine Carswell, 1916...
I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured. (D. H. Lawrence)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Thought category:
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams. (D. H. Lawrence)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Truth category:
Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day. And that is what matters. (D. H. Lawrence)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Vision category:
The picture must all come out of the artist's inside... It is the image that lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown. (D. H. Lawrence)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Wonder category:
And when the wonder has gone out of a man he is dead... When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power, but both love and power are based on wonder. Love without wonder is a sensational affair, and power without wonder is mere force and compulsion. (D. H. Lawrence)
D. H. Lawrence - From the Writing category:
-in a letter to Lady Cynthia Asquith, 1913...
I like to write when I feel spiteful: it's like having a good sneeze. (D. H. Lawrence)
Jacob Lawrence - From the Experience category:
You bring to a painting your own experience. (Jacob Lawrence)
Jacob Lawrence - From the Expression category:
I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something. (Jacob Lawrence)
Jacob Lawrence - From the Humanity category:
"Humanism" is to be human, to think, to analyze, and to probe. To respond and to be stimulated by all living things - beasts, fowl, and fishes. To respond through touch, sight, smell, and sound to all things in nature - both organic and inorganic-to colors, shapes, and textures - to not only look at a blade of grass but to really see a blade of grass. These things, to me, are what life and living are all about. I would call it "Humanism." (Jacob Lawrence)
Jacob Lawrence - From the Importance category:
My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he has developed this philosophy, he does not put paint on canvas, he puts himself on canvas. (Jacob Lawrence)
Jacob Lawrence - From the Searching category:
All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what. (Jacob Lawrence)
Jacob Lawrence - From the Simplicity category:
When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it. (Jacob Lawrence)
Jacob Lawrence - From the Subject category:
This is my genre... the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto. (Jacob Lawrence)
Margaret Lawrence - From the Money category:
- The Iceweaver: A Novel...
Every civilization built upon riches has died stillborn, ebbed away or fallen of its own weight. Once the inner eye glimpses wealth, the individual life is no longer of interest. (Margaret Lawrence)
Margaret Lawrence - From the Words category:
I know it's good when the words come to me and I don't search for them. (Margaret Lawrence)
Lawrence LeShan - From the Concentration category:
A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being. (Lawrence LeShan)
Lawrence LeShan - From the Meditation category:
We meditate to find, to recover, to come back to something of ourselves we once dimly and unknowingly had and have lost without knowing what it was or where or when we lost it. (Lawrence LeShan)
Lawrence Lessig - From the Creativity category:
Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator. (Lawrence Lessig)
Lawrence LeShan & Henry Margenau - From the Experience category:
It is only when we let ourselves be open to experience... to being surprised, that we can experience anything new... If I decide in advance what the experience should be, I cannot have a fresh experience. (Lawrence LeShan & Henry Margenau)
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun - From the Artists category:
We always get the shit end of the stick, so I figure, why not paint the shit end of the stick? (Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun)
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun - From the Artists category:
-from Bordercrossings interview 2001...
I was probably one of the first artists to pry the anthropologists from my leg, where they were hanging like little puppies. (Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun)
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