Quotation:
"We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult."
More quotes from: Alan Bean
- "And someday people will tire a little bit of the space station and they'll say ..."
- "As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the ..."
- "But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult. "
- "But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one ..."
- "But something will happen, I don't know what it is that will finally encourage people ..."
- "Eventually there are going to be cities in space. "
- "Eventually, as the centuries unfold, human beings will populate all these places and maybe a ..."
- "History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, ..."
- "How much money does the administration want to put forth to do this kind of ..."
- "I can remember that it's that (heavenly) body way out there that looks golden. "
- "I can remember walking on the moon. "
- "I don't see that changing very much and so I think we'll take that money ..."
- "I don't think we're going to see a sudden jump in the budget other than ..."
- "I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky ..."
- "I feel like there's to many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to ..."
- "I find color schemes that I just like and that just feel right. "
- "I found I have to stay painting. "
- "I had always wanted to be a pilot when I was a kid. "
- "I have the nicest life in the world. "
- "I have to tell these stories! "
- "I may live another 20 years, I may never live another week. "
- "I think everything depends on money. "
- "I thought a lot about it and decided that in the long run it was ..."
- "I wanted to fly them all, and I found out that if you became a ..."
- "I was interested in how big was it relative to the hatch, or something else ..."
- "I was more of a frustrated youngster, wanting to be an athlete, never really wanting ..."
- "If I could make a book show up tomorrow, I would do it, but I ..."
- "If they cut the space station next year, I hope they don't, but if they ..."
- "In fact I had planned when I began all this back in 1981, when I ..."
- "It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going. "
- "It took me eight years to realize that I was the only artist in the ..."
- "It turned out for me that flying airplanes was naturally fun. "
- "It was hard to believe that everybody I had ever known or seen on TV, ..."
- "It's difficult to jump around between different kinds of spacesuits, different kinds of hardware, and ..."
- "It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land ..."
- "Look at how long it was between when Columbus discovered here and the Pilgrims came. ..."
- "Maybe all this will inspire some kid to go try to be a pilot or ..."
- "Maybe we don't go to Mars in my lifetime, maybe we don't even go till ..."
- "My concern is that I won't live long enough to do the paintings that I ..."
- "None of us know the timetable, none of us know whether it's going to happen ..."
- "Nothing other than the movement of human beings off the planet out into the Universe; ..."
- "One of the biggest surprises when I got into flight training was seeing all these ..."
- "One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair. "
- "People would be just as happy doing the same things. "
- "So I've been concentrating my efforts at least for the past number of years on ..."
- "So it worked out fine, but I never imagined that we would stop and I ..."
- "So, I can tell when the horse is right because I spent 18 years on, ..."
- "The moon is very rugged. "
- "We could have seen that it cost a lot of money and it was repetitive ..."
- "We don't need to worry that next year they decide to cut the space station. "
- "We're going to eventually have a wonderful space station. "
- "What I see mostly in other space paintings is they will mix flight hardware and ..."
- "When I became an artist, then I wasn't interested in any of that stuff anymore. "
- "When you are flying spaceships, its completely different from drawing them and painting them because ..."
- "When you're young, you think it's the moving that makes you feel like an outsider ..."
- "You never know, I'm 60 years old. You never know when you're going to die. "


