#fixed

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth. ↗

— Aaron Hill

#birth #consequences #customs #fixed #form

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#bit #change #disturbing #find #fixed

I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite; you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#always #artist #asked #back #because

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era. ↗

— David Hockney

#chemicals #ended #episode #era #fixed

With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#country #distress #duty #every #every man

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#conditions #criticism #fixed #laws #life

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#apparently #becomes #final #finished #fixed

Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#fixed #islam #muslims #ordered #stable

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#everyone #film #fixed #lighting #much

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#any #away #been #before #called