- Nov 07, 2020
Time Quotes
Quotes marking moments across time.
This page brings together quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family. It pairs well with Family Quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
The actual technique, the process of painting flat color and simple geometric edges, all dates from my time here on Coenties Slip.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't think much about Marsden Hartley until very recently, but Gertrude Stein found him to be the best American painter in Europe at the time she was alive. I consider my tributes to him my most important works.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
At no time I have used the resources of my office to facilitate a relationship of any type.
- Nov 07, 2020
They only have to be right one time, the terrorists do, and we have to be wrong one time.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics - especially if you're there for a long time.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020