55 Static Quotes for You to Enjoy

When we conceive of happiness as a static state, effectively a place toward which we are aimed but at which most of us will never feel we've quite arrived, then the vision becomes exclusionary. Lionel Shriver

Happiness Vision Will State Static Never Feel Toward Conceive Most Becomes Arrived Effectively Quite Place Which Then Us

In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated within the painting, without our knowing if a real person is or isn't descending an equally real staircase. Marcel Duchamp

Painting Our Static Abstraction Knowing Equally Within Without Real Articulated Person Real Person Movement Wanted Staircase Create Deduction Descending Image

History is how we have learnt to think about ourselves. It's not as though the Greeks and Romans are static entities out there to be discovered and translated. We make them speak, we talk to them, and they inform what we say. Mary Beard

Dancing has a continuity of its own that need not be dependent upon either the rise or fall of sound or the pitch and cry of words. Its force of feeling lies in the physical image, fleeting or static. Merce Cunningham

Words Feeling Fall Own Dancing Static Lies Physical Rise Cry Force Sound Continuity Pitch Dependent Either Fleeting Image Need

I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do. Michael Heizer

Art Static Make Dynamic

I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain. Michael Ovitz

Good Static Climbing Mountain Being

Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight. Neal Stephenson

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static. Patrick Kavanagh

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It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public. Paul Mellon

Hope Father Become National Living Static Ours Would General General Public Scholars Institution Importance Artists Public Gallery Usefulness Growing

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies. Pope Francis

Today Faith Try Long Ideology Past Other Way Those Static Security Solutions Exaggerated Recover Longer Look Ideologies Disciplinarian Becomes Always Exists View Who Among Things

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static. Siri Hustvedt

Happiness Writing Fear Sadness Problems Organic Lust Our States Static Dreaming Doing Math Brain Brains Human Novels

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time. Stephen Hawking

Time Thought Universe Everyone Static Unchanging Until Up Essentially

Technology business increasingly becomes difficult to predict because technology itself is accelerating in change, and human nature and markets are more stagnant and static. But the dynamic engine of technological innovation continues unabated. Steve Jurvetson

I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify. Tom Paulin

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Who wouldn't like to give up normal life? I mean, normal life, you know, is the second worst thing to death itself. I think normality is something that makes everything very static, and I try to make my days, my daily routines, as uneven and rich as possible. Vik Muniz

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Animated editorial cartoons are completely different from static editorial cartoons. Walt Handelsman

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One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic. William Hull

Problem Active Valid Static Impersonal Ideas However Person Whereas Dynamic

Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on. Meghan O'Rourke

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