“Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.” Quote by Frank Auerbach
“The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.” WayPersonsFactsArtistCertainSituationStyleUnityArisePainterBehaveDesperateDesperate Situations Author:Frank Auerbach
“Every man has a day in his life when nobody can defeat him.” MenDefeatEvery Man Book:Living to be a hundred: stories Source: Living to be a hundred: stories
“It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?” IfsWould BeFallExampleStonesMiracleRose Author:Alfred Polgar
“You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.” RealRealityOrderImaginaryHunts Author:Breyten Breytenbach
“I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.” ThinkingWritingAreasCuriousDefinedPartisans Author:Breyten Breytenbach
“In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.” RealityClearUltimateObjectivesHidingTransparencyGoverningSpotlightOpaqueCovert Author:Breyten Breytenbach
“In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.” IfsStepsEnemyBreathsDancingCounting Author:Breyten Breytenbach
“The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.” WorldAmericaGoalInterestDangerousSakeObviousSubmitEnviousBarbariansUngrateful Author:Breyten Breytenbach