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“I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Looks I Believe Findings Direct Aim Arise Contact Contemplation

Book:The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh

Source: The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh

“When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.”

Ifs Feels Wells Looks Might Able Nature Forget Down And Notes Paint Forget It

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts.”

Ifs Looks Facts Might Capable Being True Comparison Hypothesis Verification Refutation

Book:Collected Papers

Source: Collected Papers

“On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.”

Ifs Looks Sides Clouds Gray Marble Hallways Stairways

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Found Keys Chains Meals Carbon Corn Mcdonalds Fast Food Food Chain American Food

Author:Michael Pollan

“If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.”

Ifs Thinking World Should Looks Faces Given Window Look Up Eastern

Author:Freya Stark

“If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.”

Ifs Needs Looks Ends Nature Paint Canvas Organize Naturalism

Author:David Hockney

“The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.”

Ifs Looks Art Hands Bits Paper Photography Cameras Video Bores Pencils Video Cameras

Author:David Hockney

“Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time... If you are trying to stop those situations, you are looking for external means of liberating yourself, another answer. But if we are able to look into the basic situation, then chaos is the inspiration, confusion is the inspiration.”

Ifs Trying Looks Kind Mean Inspiration Able Beautiful Answers Situation Approach Chaos Confusion All Kinds Developing Enlightened Liberating Very Beautiful

Book:The Pocket Chögyam Trungpa

Source: The Pocket Chögyam Trungpa

“If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.”

Ifs Thinking Looks School Drawing

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“For me, in those days, the great question was: Does God exist? Or doesn't God exist? Can we, by an attitude of faith, attain to a sense of community and a better world? Or, if God doesn't exist, what do we do then? What does our world look like then? In none of this was there the least political colour.”

Ifs World Looks Doe Political Religion Community Attitude Colour Our World God Exists

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.”

Ifs Looks Natural Style Mountain Models Stones Paint Copies Cracks

Author:Cennino Cennini

“When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it's eight people from Sweden who don't understand what I'm talking about.”

People Ifs Looks Winning Common Talking Eight Sweden Invigorating

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“The thing about eyewear is that it is so potent, There are very few accessories that, if you were not wearing anything, if you put on they would date you to a whole era. You could look the Thirties, the Fifties, and the Nineties just by your eyewear. It's like a pair of shoes because it is sculptural. It exists without a face. It tells a lot about where you are architecturally or aesthetically in a particular period in time.”

Ifs Looks Whole Faces Particular Periods Shoes Eras Pairs Where You Are Accessories Pair Of Shoes Eyewear

Author:Tom Ford

“Before you go alter body, do some research and find out how many women have major life-threatening complications from nose jobs. Ask about how many nose jobs gone terribly wrong, and if you thought your face was wrong before, look what happens after. The more we start augmenting our bodies, the more and more we start to look alike, then nobody is special anymore.”

Ifs Looks Body Happens Jobs Faces Asks Gone Special Majors Research Noses Your Face Threatening Complication

Author:Halle Berry

“If the windows of your spirit are dirty, and streaked, covered with matter foreign to them, then the world as you look out of them will be dirty and streaked and out of order. Go wash your windows.”

Ifs World Looks Matter Action Spirit Order Window Dirty Covered

Author:Ralph Waldo Trine

“A paradox is a seeming contradiction, always demanding a change on the side of the observer. If we look at almost all things honestly we see everything has a character of paradox to it. Everything, including ourselves.”

Ifs Looks Character Sides All Things Including Honestly Observation Contradiction Paradox Observers Seeming

Author:Richard Rohr

“One of the Great Truths of human experience is that we will achieve only what we conceive. Life cannot get better than the picture of life we habitually carry around with us. But if we want to, there is a practical way to look at that picture and change it. Here is the way of the Treasure Map.”

Ifs Way Want Humans Looks Achieve Treasure Practicals Get Better Maps Human Experience Visualization

Author:Lisa Hoffman

“Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.”

People Ifs Looks Ideas Whole Painter No Idea

Author:Pierre Bonnard

“If Mrs Merkel wants to wear Westwood, I can promise that I will design clothes for her that will make her look chic, refined and influential.”

Ifs Want Looks I Can Design Promise Clothes Influential Refined Chic

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“Look, I don't know whether God exists. I don't know that. And I tell you one thing, I am not frightened of my beliefs. If there is a God who is threatening me with damnation because I don't believe in Him, so be it. I've lived my life in conscience, and I will suffer damnation willingly in conscience against a tyrannical God who would damn me because, on the basis of the intelligence He gave me, I have come to a conclusion doubting His existence, and I will continue to be a skeptic all of my life.”

“Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.”

Ifs Writing Looks Artist Song Willing Capable Wounds

Author:Lady Gaga

“I use the gallery as if it were a doctor. I come for ideas and help - to look at situations within painting, rather than paintings.”

Ifs Looks Ideas Helping Use Situation Painting Doctors Gallery

Author:Lucian Freud

“In the cosmology behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or to do anything... I'am an accident - a result - and therefore a victim... if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes.... or, if you look at it from the sociological perspective, I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result .”

Ifs Looks Reason Past Social Causes Results Race Behinds Class Psychology Perspective Economics Prejudice Victim Gender Accidents No Reason Upbringing Cosmology Sociological

Author:James Hillman

“If our intelligence is either manipulated or if it's shaded or if in some way it is exaggerated, it is very, very dangerous for us, particularly as we go down the road and look at other threats.”

Ifs Way Looks Dangerous Threat Exaggeration Exaggerated Down The Road

Author:Carl Levin

“You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.”

Ifs Knows Looks Happens Today Gone Wind

Author:Kelly Lynch

“Women are my best friends, my best audience. If I look out from the stage and see a lot of men, I know I'm in trouble”

Ifs Knows Men Looks Audience Trouble Stage My Best Friend

Author:Paul Lynde

“I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.”

Ifs Knows Looks Doe Whole Literature Stuff My Own Proud Highest Regard Flaws Right Words

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small- clothes and looks as if he smelt it.”

Ifs Looks Walks Clothes Gray

Author:Christopher Smart

“Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.”

Ifs Knows World Giving Looks May Treasure Useless Maps Librarian Right Direction

Author:Patrick Ness

“A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did, it has changed its plumage, And plunges you back into ignorant gloomage.”

Ifs Looks Book Changed Bird Ignorant Plunge

Author:Ogden Nash

“If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.”

Ifs Looks Past Success Behinds Successful Miles Painter Squares Canvas

Book:Charles Webster Hawthorne

Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne

“Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Too Much Painting Impulsive

Book:Charles Webster Hawthorne

Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne

“I have no idea of what it's going to look like when I start a piece. Making art is like having a relationship. You want to bring in some ideas, but if you don't allow it to develop naturally and speak to you as it develops, you end up imposing and projecting upon it.”

Ifs Want Looks Art Ideas Ends Speak Pieces Art Is Planning No Idea Imposing

Author:Nick Bantock

“I'm really creating abstract shapes and relationships that work together. They come together and give the illusion of reality, but they're really abstract shapes. If you look at individual shapes, they aren't the shape of anything, but together they give you the illusion of hills and sun and flowers.”

Ifs Giving Looks Reality Together Individual Sun Flower Shapes Creating Illusion Hills Abstract Working Together

Author:John Newman

“This is advertising that is designed not to look or feel like advertising at all. The one thing we felt we got parents to agree with was that if their children ask them questions about enlisting, they had an obligation to, one, engage, and then two, be informed.”

Ifs Feels Looks Children Two Asks Felt Parent One Thing Agree Obligation Advertising Enlisting

Author:Edward Boches

“Look, I am a Palestinian elected representative from Jericho. If a Palestinian wants to sell his fruit anywhere in the West Bank, he goes to the Israeli civil administration. If a Palestinian sick person wants to leave a hospital, he goes through the Israeli civil administration. Nobody can leave or enter my constituency without Israeli permission. Israel is, in effect, resuming the occupation.”

Ifs Want Looks Persons Effects Civilization Sick Sells West Fruit Israel Administration Hospitals Occupation Representatives Palestinian Permission Israeli Jericho Sick Person

Author:Saeb Erekat

“But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?.”

Ifs Giving Looks Children Purpose Wife Protect Our Children My Wife My Children Jail

Author:Ernie Hudson

“A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.”

Ifs Years Looks Artist Careers Profession Fathom Trenches

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Seems Journey Sky Becoming Empty Flash Lightning Illuminating

Author:Adyashanti

“The reason people think I look good now is because I was never a beauty as a wee girl. And thank heavens. It's frightening to get old anyway, but if your looks were the cornerstone of your life, well, it would be very difficult.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Looks Reason Would Be Girl Heaven Difficult Frightening Cornerstones

Author:Lulu

“The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.”

Ifs Should Looks Problem Able Progress Sight Painter Unseen Tiresome Work In Progress

Book:The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn

Source: The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn

“If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like something that isn't there.”

Ifs Knows Mind Looks Results Seeing Conflict Paint Like Something

Author:Richard Schmid

“Some of your children's rebellion against your spiritual lifestyle might be a necessary step in their finding an authentic relationship with God. But beware: If they find it, it might look quite different from what you've always thought it should be.”

Ifs Should Looks Children Different Might Spiritual Steps Findings Lifestyle Your Children Rebellion Spiritual Life Relationship With God

Author:Tim Kimmel

“People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.”

People Ifs Looks Disappointment Supposed To Be Disappoint

Author:Walt Disney

“If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.”

People Ifs Looks Done Wanted Success Successful Advice Information Succeed All Things Tramps

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there”

Ifs Looks Stills Funny Humorous Witty Now And Then Cowboy Herds Old West Cowboy Wisdom Cowgirls

Author:Will Rogers

“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.”

Ifs Way Want Looks Done Artist Inspiring Creative Too Much Willing Memorable Live Your Life Different Jobs

Author:Steve Jobs

“If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals, we should look around and see what other course is open to us.”

Ifs Knows World Should Looks Lasts Courses Nature Accepting Knowing Environment Risk Environmental Our World Chemicals Frightening Poisonous

Author:Rachel Carson

“The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while they destroyed. We have passed this stage.... Here in the U.S. we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy our forests and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals - not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at best it looks as if our people were awakening.”

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