(572 quotes found)
“I continue to get further away from the usual painter’s tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.”
Jackson Pollock
“We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?”
Haile Selassie
“Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.”
John J. Bernet
“Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.”
Henri Bergson
“This... this... 'coyote' is like, just another tool of this wicked administration, ... I mean are we supposed to accept the fact that it's okay for a predator like this to have nuclear weapons but it's not okay for say, a road runner or a baby harp seal? Coyotes like Wile E. are already waging nuclear war on defenseless road runners every day. I believe the pictures taken by my undercover operatives speak for themselves.”
Cindy Sheehan
“Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.”
Milan Kundera
“Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.”
Bernard M. Baruch
“One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.”
Christine Gregoire
“One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.”
G. Weilacher