5,159 Quotes About Mean

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before which means that the scope of society's domination over the individual is immeasurably greater than ever before. Our society distinguishes itself by conquering the centrifugal social forces with Technology rather than Terror, on the dual basis of an overwhelming efficiency and an increasing standard of living.

Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.

Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.

Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.