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Julian Beck - From the Suffering category:
If we would really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering. (Julian Beck)
David R. Becker - From the Ideas category:
A rich imagination nurtured by anything it can soak up – memories, travels, dreams or encounters become fused and erupt into an idea. (David R. Becker)
David R. Becker - From the Imagination category:
The imagination is a powerful tool. An artist can use it to show others the world as he sees it and to bring others into his dream of what the world could be. (David R. Becker)
May Lamberton Becker - From the Aging category:
We grow neither better nor worse as we grow old, but more like ourselves. (May Lamberton Becker)
Dave Beckett - From the Pastels category:
Bright colours or dark ones, sparkling clarity or misty atmosphere, landscape, still life, portrait - I haven't met a subject, style or mood yet that can't be portrayed beautifully in pastel. (Dave Beckett)
Justin Beckett - From the Journey category:
The life of an artist is a continuous journey, the path long and never ending. (Justin Beckett)
Justin Beckett - From the Nature category:
Nature has been mastering itself for some time now, and it is an honor to be able to capture its beauty. (Justin Beckett)
Justin Beckett - From the Seeing category:
I could paint these mountains the way they look, but it isn't how I see them. (Justin Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Art category:
Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Awareness category:
Normally I didn't see a great deal. I didn't hear a great deal either. I didn't pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn't there. Strictly speaking I believe I've never been anywhere. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Boredom category:
- Waiting for Godot...
We wait. We are bored... A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Change category:
I've got my faults, but changing my tune isn't one of them. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Change category:
To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Complaining category:
- Waiting for Godot...
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Comprehension category:
Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Contrasts category:
The Unnamable,1954...
How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Creativity category:
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Danger category:
Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don't there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Desire category:
- Watt...
It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke... (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Destiny category:
What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Drunkenness category:
The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Earth category:
Use your head, can't you, use your head, you're on earth. There's no cure for that. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Eccentricity category:
We are all born mad. Some remain so. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Ego category:
- Molloy, 1951...
It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Failure category:
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail... failure is his world and to shrink from it desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living... (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Failure category:
- Worstward Ho...
All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Finishing category:
- Endgame,1957...
The end is in the beginning and yet you go on. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Fire category:
Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Freedom category:
- Molloy, 1951..
All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Goodness category:
I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it? (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Habit category:
Habit is a great deadener. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Habit category:
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Habit category:
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Humanity category:
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Humour category:
-Endgame,1957...
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness... And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Impossibilities category:
So all things limp together for the only possible. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Life category:
-Molloy, 1951...
In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Life category:
We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Lines category:
When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Loneliness category:
With all this darkness round me I feel less alone. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Love category:
Do we mean love, when we say love? (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Memory category:
What is that unforgettable line? (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Mistakes category:
My mistakes are my life. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Modernism category:
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Movement category:
Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Order category:
-Endgame,1957...
I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Originality category:
All has not been said and never will be. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Peace category:
-Molloy, 1951...
To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Perfection category:
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Perseverance category:
Try again. Fail again. Try better. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Poetry category:
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Problems category:
When you're in the shit up to your neck, there's nothing left to do but sing. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Questions category:
-Molloy, 1951...
If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Questions category:
What was God doing with himself before the creation? (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Questions category:
All life long, the same questions, the same answers. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Sadness category:
The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Silence category:
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Silence category:
-Molloy, 1951...
To restore silence is the role of objects. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Silence category:
Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Space category:
There's no lack of void. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Time category:
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Travel category:
It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Unknowns category:
Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Windows category:
If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Windows category:
In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Words category:
There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Words category:
Words are all we have. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Words category:
Words are the clothes thoughts wear. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Writing category:
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. (Samuel Beckett)
Samuel Beckett - From the Writing category:
There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket. (Samuel Beckett)
Sister Wendy Beckett - From the Danger category:
Prejudice is always dangerous. (Sister Wendy Beckett)
Sister Wendy Beckett - From the Deception category:
-on Salvador Dali...
All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been. (Sister Wendy Beckett)
Sister Wendy Beckett - From the Dreams category:
The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation. (Sister Wendy Beckett)
Sister Wendy Beckett - From the Greatness category:
The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you. (Sister Wendy Beckett)
Sister Wendy Beckett - From the Observation category:
Again and again I've taken quick glances and then for some reason I've got to sit before a picture waiting and it's opened up like one of those Japanese flowers that you put into water and something I thought wasn't worth more than a casual, respectful glance begins to open up depth after depth of meaning. (Sister Wendy Beckett)
Sister Wendy Beckett - From the Prayer category:
All great art is a visual form of prayer. (Sister Wendy Beckett)
Sister Wendy Beckett - From the Shock category:
-on Salvador Dali...
He sought out the shocking: if spitting upon his dead mother's image would attract attention, he was a prolific and boastful spitter. (Sister Wendy Beckett)
Max Beckmann - From the Abstraction category:
In principle any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it. (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Abstraction category:
I hardly need to abstract things for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting. (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Accidents category:
My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality. (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Achievement category:
Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement. (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Determination category:
My determination becomes colder to grab this twitching, living monster, and lock it away in crystal-clear, sharp lines and planes, to quell it and strangle it. I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery. (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Dreams category:
I awoke and yet continued to dream... (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Journey category:
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make. (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Love category:
I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality. (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Models category:
I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones. (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Mysteries category:
All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being. (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Painting category:
Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life. (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Questions category:
What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art. (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Reality category:
What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. It may sound paradoxical, but it is in fact reality which forms the mystery of our existence. (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Searching category:
One of my problems is to find the self. (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Silence category:
The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut... (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Space category:
Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space. (Max Beckmann)
Max Beckmann - From the Space category:
Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained. (Max Beckmann)
Dr. Michael Beckwith - From the Choices category:
You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought. (Dr. Michael Beckwith)
Dr. Michael Beckwith - From the Earth category:
We are on the planet to... wrap our consciousness around the divine treasure within us... (Dr. Michael Beckwith)
Dr. Michael Beckwith - From the Freedom category:
Too many people are living in a prison that they have themselves manufactured. (Dr. Michael Beckwith)
Dr. Michael Beckwith - From the Humility category:
Ah, the first step in humility: Listening. (Dr. Michael Beckwith)
Dr. Michael Beckwith - From the Life category:
You are a cosmic happening rooted in a local event, NOT the other way around. (Dr. Michael Beckwith)
Dr. Michael Beckwith - From the Meditation category:
Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them. (Dr. Michael Beckwith)
Dr. Michael Beckwith - From the Motivation category:
Pain pushes until vision pulls. (Dr. Michael Beckwith)
Dr. Michael Beckwith - From the Problems category:
Problems can only exist if they have your attention. (Dr. Michael Beckwith)
Dr. Michael Beckwith - From the Purpose category:
Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and be the authentic Self that is, has been and ever shall be. (Dr. Michael Beckwith)
Dr. Michael Beckwith - From the Questions category:
Who am I, and where am I going? You are the answer to this question. You are here to ask the question, and to be the answer. (Dr. Michael Beckwith)
Dr. Michael Beckwith - From the Routine category:
Each time we bring to routine activities an awareness of 'now,' we raise our vibratory frequency and cause the freshness of the moment to fall upon us. (Dr. Michael Beckwith)
Dr. Michael Beckwith - From the Universe category:
Our universe is not a 'was' or a 'will be' system. It is an 'is' system vibrating within the 'now' measurement of time. (Dr. Michael Beckwith)
Harry Beckwith - From the Excellence category:
Prospects do not buy how good you are at what you do. They buy how good you are at who you are. (Harry Beckwith)
Becky McMahon - From the Memory category:
Working from memory frees the artist to paint only what is important for that picture. (Becky McMahon)
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