My education in the arts began at the Cleveland Museum of Art. As a Cleveland child, I visited the m...
AGNES GUND Of course, museums and galleries and art spaces will continue to ground the art world. But certainly...
AGNES GUND If it's taught well, art really is important to kids early on. It helps children develop languag...
AGNES GUND I have the same sense of discovery and exhilaration from objects of design and everyday use - I am i...
AGNES GUND Art shouldn't be prohibited in public schools when kids in private schools always get it.
AGNES GUND In my own life, I share my home with works by artists like Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear, Jackie ...
AGNES GUND The need we have for information is great, and we get it from many admirable sources. The need we ha...
AGNES GUND I own works by women artists; it is hard for me to see, literally to see, how women and men differ i...
AGNES GUND Most of the art I have is more on the beautiful side than the violent or disturbing side.
AGNES GUND I'm hoping someday that we'll be able to start a consortium with places like Carnegie Hall t...
AGNES GUND However dark, however demanding the realities of existence are, artists provide the lift, the light,...
AGNES GUND The arts capture our insecurities, quicken our instincts, guide us through threats. They help us kno...
AGNES GUND You don't have a balanced life if you don't have art.
AGNES GUND I'm so lucky in my life, but I'm so unlucky in my abilities. I love art so much, but I'm...
AGNES GUND Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests...
AGNES MACPHAIL Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its hero...
AGNES REPPLIER It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who ...
AGNES REPPLIER There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join
AGNES REPPLIER A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stoppin...
AGNES REPPLIER We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh
AGNES REPPLIER The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
AGNES REPPLIER It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
AGNES REPPLIER Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. - Points of V...
AGNES REPPLIER To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
AGNES REPPLIER In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers...
AGNES REPPLIER That's the major driver of stock markets today. The rising interest rate cycle is close to an end.
AGNES DENG The market's expecting that the interest rate cycle is close to an end and that's the major driver o...
AGNES DENG Obviously people have become more confident (in) Chinese banking. People are expecting corporate gov...
AGNES DENG Any rise in global oil prices increases their earnings substantially,
AGNES DENG I hate female men.
AGNES SMEDLEY I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
AGNES SMEDLEY Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are...
AGNES SMEDLEY Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently...
AGNES SMEDLEY For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
AGNES SMEDLEY For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The ...
AGNES SMEDLEY Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never...
AGNES SMEDLEY But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to...
AGNES SMEDLEY But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most ...
AGNES SMEDLEY And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her...
AGNES SMEDLEY The girls we spoke to see Barbie torture as a legitimate play activity.
AGNES NAIRN The girls we spoke to see Barbie torture as a legitimate play activity, and see the torture as a 'co...
AGNES NAIRN The doll provoked rejection, hatred and violence.
AGNES NAIRN You might expect little girls to love their Barbie and expect an imaginary love in return. Instead g...
AGNES NAIRN When you perform you are out of yourself-larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes...
AGNES MILLE Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
AGNES MILLE A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
AGNES MILLE The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in ...
AGNES MILLE The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
AGNES MILLE Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And...
AGNES MILLE The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
AGNES MILLE No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
AGNES MILLE The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
AGNES MILLE ...then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world crac...
AGNES MILLE Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and t...
AGNES MARTIN Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
AGNES MARTIN When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in ...
AGNES MARTIN To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you d...
AGNES MARTIN My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.
AGNES MARTIN Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... w...
AGNES MARTIN Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I belie...
AGNES MACPHAIL Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alo...
AGNES MACPHAIL As far as the memory cards are concerned, there's no major problems there. It's just a matter of peo...
AGNES GARVIN I'm hoping based on the publicity they have been getting at least 40 percent turn out, but I don't k...
AGNES GARVIN They just give us all kinds of reasons. I just think the paperwork got placed in the box and that bo...
AGNES GARVIN We're all in this together. So it provided an opportunity for us to exchange views.
AGNES GARVIN Focusing on wireless value-added service businesses seems to be working. But this only makes up a sm...
AGNES DENG The impact is really going to be the greater integration of the two capital markets. From the invest...
AGNES DENG We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
AGNES REPPLIER Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
AGNES REPPLIER The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he doe...
AGNES REPPLIER The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
AGNES REPPLIER Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
AGNES REPPLIER We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
AGNES REPPLIER A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to exc...
AGNES REPPLIER It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift cont...
AGNES REPPLIER What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have...
AGNES MEYER There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...
AGNES REPPLIER In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers...
AGNES REPPLIER Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
AGNES REPPLIER It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies an...
AGNES REPPLIER People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
AGNES REPPLIER Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
AGNES REPPLIER No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently...
AGNES DEMILLE In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whisper...
AGNES REPPLIER The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of ...
AGNES REPPLIER I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.
AGNES MACPHAIL Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I belie...
AGNES MACPHAIL When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I...
AGNES MACPHAIL I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my moth...
AGNES MACPHAIL Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes f...
AGNES MACPHAIL If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had...
AGNES MACPHAIL It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to cha...
AGNES MACPHAIL I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.
AGNES MACPHAIL Never apologize. Never explain. Just get the thing done, and let them howl.
AGNES MACPHAIL If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the ...
AGNES MACPHAIL I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute e...
AGNES MACPHAIL Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal exp...
AGNES CHEW You yearn to stay in this in-between place, where the beauty of the times you have freshly bade fare...
AGNES CHEW I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
AGNES SMEDLEY Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot,...
AGNES SMEDLEY Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.
AGNES MARTIN Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.
AGNES MARTIN The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for the...
AGNES OBEL I get a lot of dark scripts now. I don't wanna be stuck doing movies like American Pie. For some...
AGNES BRUCKNER I love Denmark. But it is a very safe place, and it is easy to let the state look after everything f...
AGNES OBEL There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
AGNES REPPLIER Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
AGNES REPPLIER Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
AGNES REPPLIER The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he d...
AGNES REPPLIER Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests al...
AGNES MACPHAIL It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
AGNES REPPLIER It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fa...
AGNES REPPLIER The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
AGNES REPPLIER I had flops, I had success.
AGNES VARDA Always treat yourself special as someone might not know your worth
AGNES ARCILLA I love you Amr
AGNES ARCILLA Live simply as possible. Love more, give more, expect less.
AGNES ARCILLA Love me as I have loved you. Need me as I have need you. Don't do things I do in return to satisfy m...
AGNES ARCILLA Don't judge me as if you are a saint. Don't look at me as if you haven't sinned.
AGNES ARCILLA The impluse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
AGNES REPPELIER I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.
AGNES MARTIN There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
AGNES REPPLIER Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been cau...
AGNES SMEDLEY Of course I never retired from housework.
AGNES MATTOX We hope that parents take those books home and read them to their kids.
AGNES MATTOX We do a lot of that.
AGNES MATTOX We're looking forward to the finals ? it should be exciting.
AGNES KOSINSKI He is great. He sings, he's a comic, he does a magic show... It's great family entertainment.
AGNES KOSINSKI It's just a couple of bucks cheaper, but you won't have to stand in line if you have the pass.
AGNES KOSINSKI This is a comeback event. We had it for a few years, so we're glad it's back.
AGNES KOSINSKI We really think we have some great entertainment this year.
AGNES KOSINSKI I felt like, when Mercedes touched the ball, she could score at will. What I am most proud of is tha...
AGNES BERENATO Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of
AGNES ALLEN Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers
AGNES THORNTON The students and the teachers are all shaken up. In my 20 years at the school, it is the first time ...
AGNES TENNANT Some of them are even still crying and I have to be calming them down.
AGNES TENNANT It was a shack. It wasn't really where we wanted to be, but it was the best we could do at the time.
AGNES TEBO He was determined to do it (start the branch). He took that petition to the county courthouse to get...
AGNES TEBO The owner would say to them 'You can go in the kitchen any time you want, but you got to eat back th...
AGNES TEBO Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natur...
AGNES SMEDLEY The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just c...
AGNES MARTIN My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when...
AGNES SMEDLEY The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.
AGNES MARTIN My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.
AGNES MARTIN When I first made a grid, I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees, and then a grid came ...
AGNES MARTIN The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.
AGNES REPPLIER Courage, strength and humility, these completes a human being
AGNES ARCILLA Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature
AGNES REPPLIER There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth
AGNES REPPLIER The clear sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it
AGNES REPPLIER It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it u...
AGNES REPPLIER People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization
AGNES REPPLIER Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet...
AGNES REPPLIER The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of ...
AGNES REPPLIER A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
AGNES REPPLIER There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral lows, and there is ...
AGNES REPPLIER Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk ...
AGNES REPPLIER Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of esc...
AGNES OBEL Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's ...
AGNES OBEL I really believe it's not bad to look back within music. I don't mean retro, but using your ...
AGNES OBEL The value of art is in the observer.
AGNES MARTIN I'm not into having a pedigree dog.
AGNES OBEL When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
AGNES SMEDLEY One thing I like about Zen. It doesn't believe in achievement.
AGNES MARTIN For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not lik...
AGNES BRUCKNER I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new ima...
AGNES VARDA Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
AGNES VARDA So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There wer...
AGNES SMEDLEY Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
AGNES SMEDLEY More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forev...
AGNES SMEDLEY In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts,...
AGNES SMEDLEY I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to re...
AGNES SMEDLEY There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they ...
AGNES SMEDLEY No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is ...
AGNES SMEDLEY What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them...
AGNES SMEDLEY In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked w...
AGNES SMEDLEY Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and...
AGNES SMEDLEY Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk ...
AGNES REPPLIER I have a difficult relationship with jazz. My parents really love it, and I went to a school where j...
AGNES OBEL I don't have a daily routine at all.
AGNES OBEL I love the conversation between film and music.
AGNES OBEL When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio...
AGNES OBEL Everything that has a spare piano is 'like Satie' and everything with strings is 'filmic...
AGNES OBEL When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.
AGNES OBEL It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to ...
AGNES OBEL With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting some...
AGNES OBEL I used to get very nervous before a concert. It's okay when you are in a band. You can kind of d...
AGNES OBEL I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.
AGNES OBEL I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't...
AGNES OBEL I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.
AGNES OBEL My parents were very relaxed about music.
AGNES OBEL The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.
AGNES OBEL What I discovered in Berlin was this immense freedom because it felt like you could start any kind o...
AGNES OBEL Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something ...
AGNES OBEL The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You...
AGNES OBEL I've heard from other artists that people are a little bit more reserved in Northern Europe, whi...
AGNES OBEL I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't r...
AGNES OBEL I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.
AGNES OBEL People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in th...
AGNES MARTIN I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment.
AGNES MARTIN