“What I could have done in real life only by throwing a bomb which would have led to the scaffold I tried to achieve in painting by using color of maximum purity. In this way I satisfied my urge to destroy old conventions, to disobey in order to re-create a tangible, living, and liberated world.” WorldWayRealDoneOrderAchieveColorPaintingReal LifeSatisfiedPurityBombsUrgesThrowingConventionsMaximumRenewalTangibleLiberated Author:Maurice de Vlaminck
“If you'd spent your life being called "Gyles Brandreth", you would crawl across broken glass to achieve the bliss, the simplicity, the purity, the joy of simply being called "Bob".” IfsJoyAchieveBrokenSimplicityGlassesBlissPurityBobBroken Glass Author:Gyles Brandreth
“I don't believe in a perfect world. I don't believe it's achievable, and I believe the people who try to achieve it usually end up turning it into something like Cambodia or something very similar because purity tests set in. Are you ideologically pure enough to be allowed to live? Well, it turns out that very few people are, so you end up with a big powerful struggle and a mass killing scene.” PeopleWorldTryingBelieveWellsEndsEnoughBigsTurnsI BelievePerfectPowerfulStruggleAchieveScenePureMassTestsKillingDon't BelievePurityLive WellA Perfect WorldCambodia Author:Margaret Atwood
“The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.” WantAgeMiddleAchieveDangerousReturnElementsIslamRadicalPurityIslamicMiddle Ages Author:Brent Scowcroft
“Spirituality is the science that teaches us how to achieve peace of mind and supreme satisfaction. Right now we are hankering after many, many things, but nothing we get satisfies us. Spirituality tells us that satisfaction can be found only if we lead a good and divine life-a life of simplicity, purity and humility.” IfsMindSpiritualityFoundTeachAchieveHumilityDivineRight NowSimplicitySatisfactionSupremePurityPeace Of MindDivine LifeHankering Author:Sri Chinmoy
“Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the messy material conditions of trying to make a living while doing that work.” WantTryingArtAchieveConditionsMaterialsBoundsPurityMessy Author:Chad Harbach