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“While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that's left room for too many people calling themselves artists and curators who are simply not up to the term.”

People Artist Left Term Space Rooms Calling Curator

Author:Jerry Saltz

“I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone.”

Thinking Space Shapes Commitment Tools Size Atmosphere Zone Volume Sculptors

Author:Michael Heizer

“Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space.”

Real Space Ego Empty Imaginary Comprehensive True Nature Intangible Empty Space

Author:Anagarika Govinda

“You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.”

Should Looks Form Space Movement Draws Edges Gestures Precise

Author:Kimon Nicolaides

“The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I try to use the medium to its maximum, pushing well beyond tradition.”

Trying Wells Use Light Space Issues Color Balance Tradition Mediums Landscape Appropriate Pushing Formal Repetition Engaging Maximum Format Quilts

Author:Elizabeth Barton

“What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.”

Ifs Thinking Space Effort Practice Middle Approach Artistic

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“Having three operational vehicles in the fleet affords the shuttle program great schedule flexibility as we move toward flying safely and completing the international space station.”

Moving Three Space Program International Flying Stations Vehicle Schedules Flexibility Completing International Space Station Shuttle Program

Author:Wayne Hale

“NASA appreciates the efforts of Congress to resolve restrictions placed on our partnership with Russia. Congress' action helps to ensure the continuous presence of U.S. astronauts on the International Space Station.”

Helping Action Space Effort Appreciate International Congress Russia Stations Resolve Partnership Restriction Astronaut Nasa International Space Station

Author:Michael D. Griffin

“Every month we do a bold adventure. This is the golden age of space exploration.”

Age Space Adventure Months Golden Exploration Boldness Space Exploration Golden Age

Author:Charles Elachi

“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”

“Russia is actively using gas diplomacy for its expansion over the ex-Soviet space in a bid to become a regional superpower.”

Space Russia Gas Soviet Expansion Diplomacy Exes Superpower

Author:Lilia Shevtsova

“All space is space in which to create.”

Book:The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance

“Reality manifests itself as constant and objective - independent of us, but as changeable in space and time. Consequently, its reflection in us contains both properties. Mixed up in our mind, these properties are confused and we do not have a proper image of reality.”

Mind Reality Space Reflection Independent Constant Property Objectives Confused Time And Space

Book:The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian

Source: The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian

“The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right.”

I Can Form Space Worry Gaps

Book:Paula Rego

Source: Paula Rego

“Our basic civil liberties are in jeopardy, but we're going to be spending our time as a society arguing about whether or not schoolchildren should be forced to pay tribute to imaginary invisible beings who live in magical kingdoms in outer space some”

Should Space Pay Liberty Spending Arguing Invisible Kingdoms Our Time Imaginary Tribute Civil Liberties Outer Space Jeopardy

Author:Tom Tomorrow

“The heart of the problem is not so much how we see objects in depth, as how we see the constant layout of the world around us. Space, as such, empty space, is not visible, but surfaces are.”

World Heart Problem Space Objects Empty Constant Depth Surface Visible Empty Space Layout

Author:James J. Gibson

“Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult of Place in which people find perfection, even divinity in the landscape.”

People America Space Five Healthy Perfection Twenties Miles Landscape Divinity Squares Cult Ruined Alaska Twenty Five Montana

Author:Ellen Meloy

“A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!”

Space Train Library Platforms Another Time

Author:Esme Raji Codell

“A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students. He does not yet know that one day he will have to face himself as a solitary creature enclosed in a space of four walls... and that he will have to be a self-propelled being, with no one at is side.”

Ifs Knows Doe Art Self School Faces Young Sides Space Four Students Wall One Day Solitude Creatures Painter Solitary Art School Four Walls Art Students

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered.”

Space Conditions Position Color Shapes Response

Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.”

Trying Long Important Purpose Artist Given Stuff Space Evoke

Author:Robert Genn

“State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.”

Firsts States Space Objects Color Flow Interpretation

Author:Kay WalkingStick

“For the art-historically informed, no art has truly shocked since November 19, 1971, when Chris Burden had himself shot in the arm by a friend, at F-Space in Santa Ana, California. Sliced cows and surgically altering one's own face is aftershock art.”

Art Faces Space Arms Shots Burden California Shock Cows Shocked Santa November Aftershock

Author:Mark Kostabi

“Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite rules is the ground where I play and write.”

Writing Two Play Space Rooms Opposites Paradox Opposing Space Between

Author:Mu Xin

“Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of the skies and the world beneath.”

Thinking World Eye Space Views Vision Sky Infinite Seclusion Vantage Point Infinite Space

Author:Charles E. Burchfield

“When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating ground.”

Firsts Fall Space Staring Autumn Frost Fall Season October And Fall

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.”

Men Mind Christian Jesus Christ Space Jesus Christ Barriers Unseen Time And Space Insensible Christ Alone

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.”

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.”

Knows Trying May Stills Science Space Behinds Knowledge Fronts Position Higher Scales Wander Uncharted

Book:The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

“One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.”

Night Water Space Summer Edges Flats Horizon August Rims Summer Nights New Horizons Moon And Stars Sun And Stars

Author:Rachel Carson

“There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. There is a delight in the hardy life of the open... Apart from this, yet mingled with it, is the strong attraction of the silent places, of the large tropic moons, and the splendor of the new stars; where the wanderer sees the awful glory of sunrise and sunset in the wide waste spaces of the earth, unworn of man, and changed only by the slow change of the ages through time everlasting.”

“Space we can recover; time never.”

Space Regret Procrastination Never Regret

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“If someone wants to be a part of your life, They'll make an effort to be in it. So don't bother reserving a space in your heart for someone Who doesn't make an effort to stay. ERASING someone from your mind is so easy... But REMOVING the same person from your heart is ANOTHER STORY. Pin It Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.”

Ifs Want Love Mind Heart Persons Sometimes Stories Easy Space Effort Magic Illusion Bother Pins

Author:Javan

“Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.”

World Inspirational Science Universe Nature Space Study Discovery Noble Astronomy Cosmos Aviation Exploring Bishops Exalted Cosmology Friars

Author:Albertus Magnus

“Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.”

Art War Use Lost Space Concerned Strategy Former Time And Space Lost Time Use Of Time

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.”

Country Politics Space Worry Politician Parking Not Worrying Parking Space

Author:Will Rogers

“You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another. The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.”

Knows Play Stuff Voice Space Morning Plans One Thing Changed Tears Planets Terrible Screens Destroyed Having Fun Japan Length Toys Cartoon Robots Animated Menace Outer Space Doings

Author:Orson Welles

“When the Eagle landed on the moon, I was speechless—overwhelmed, like most of the world. Couldn't say a word. I think all I said was, 'Wow! Jeez!' Not exactly immortal. Well, I was nothing if not human.”

Ifs Thinking World Humans Wells Said Space Moon Immortal Wow Overwhelmed Eagles Apollo Speechless

Author:Walter Cronkite

“There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny or for the service of freedom”

May Important Earth Lying Purpose Space Position Weapons Gains Ultimate Tyranny Aviation Air Power Airpower

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“The Life we have is very great. The Life that we shall see Surpasses it, we know, because It is Infinity, But when all Space has been beheld And all Dominion shown The smallest Human Heart's extent Reduces it to none.”

Knows Life Humans Heart Has Beens Space Infinity Smallest Human Heart Dominion

Book:Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them

Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them

“I'm coming back in... and it's the saddest moment of my life.”

Moments Space Coming Back Saddest Star Gazing Space Flight

Author:Edward Higgins White

“At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.”

Wealth Space Valuable Beans Nourishment Small Spaces Cocoa

Author:Alexander von Humboldt

“Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you get discouraged it is not a bad sign, but a good one. If you think you are not doing it well, you are thinking the way real novelists do. I never knew one who did not feel greatly discouraged at times, and some get desperate, and I have always found that to be a good symptom.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Writing Wells Long Real Hard Found Space Novel Novelists Things To Do Desperate Symptoms Discouraged Hard Things

Author:Maxwell Perkins

“Women need a space to be creative -- creativity thrives in solitude.”

Needs Space Creativity Creative Solitude Thrive Be Creative

Author:Sark

“No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.”

Should Humans Space Race Mankind Human Race Quests Venture Sovereignty Star Gazing Outer Space National Sovereignty

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“Control of space means control of the world.”

World Mean Space Future Predictions

Book:A Time for Action

Source: A Time for Action

“The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the air age we were powerful because we had airplaines. Now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space.”

World Age Space Powerful Air Future British Ships Empires Controlled Communist Dominant Predictions Roman Empire Outer Space British Empire

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Now when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers.”

Space Bucks Roger Disneyland Outer Space Buck Rogers

Author:Walt Disney

“There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.”

Soul Space Sea Solitude Privacy Infinity Site Finite

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those unhallowed blasphemies from elder stars which dream beneath the sea, known and favoured by a nightmare cult ready and eager to loose them upon the world whenever another earthquake shall heave their monstrous stone city again to the sun and air.”

Source: H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Complete Fiction in One Volume: The Call of Cthulhu, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Dunwich Horror and Many More: The Whisperer in Darkness, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Rats in the Walls, The Shunned House, The Shadow Out of Time, The Alchemist, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Silver Key, The Templeäó_