Famous quotes containing the words plains, field and/or army:
“When I say artist I dont mean in the narrow sense of the wordbut the man who is building thingscreating molding the earthwhether it be the plains of the westor the iron ore of Penn. Its all a big game of constructionsome with a brushsome with a shovelsome choose a pen.”
—Jackson Pollock (19121956)
“Last night I watched my brothers play,
The gentle and the reckless one,
In a field two yards away.
For half a century they were gone
Beyond the other side of care
To be among the peaceful dead.”
—Edwin Muir (18871959)
“It is necessary to turn political crisis into armed crisis by performing violent actions that will force those in power to transform the military situation into a political situation. That will alienate the masses, who, from then on, will revolt against the army and the police and blame them for this state of things.”
—Carlos Marighella (d. 1969)