Famous Quotes & Sayings

Captain Beefheart

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

Captain Beefheart

The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.

Captain Beefheart

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

Faith Ringgold

I was pleased with the results but every time I look at both of those pictures, I feel a little bit of the pain I felt in trying to put it together.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

Saul Steinberg

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

Captain Beefheart

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

Keith Haring

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

Carl Barks

I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.

Ray Elliott

I've never seen an individual request more time,

Boethius

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Robert Kiyosaki

Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a better price, also, or we're obsolete.

Andy Garcia

I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.

Albert Einstein

I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.

Nancy White

You do it as a team and it's not an individual sport. It's just a really wonderful new skill to have.

Theodor Adorno

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

Jim Balsillie

lends itself to an individual in a corporation or a small group.

Khaya Ngqula

She is a talented individual and we wish her well in her new ventures.

Steve Martin

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.

Michael Eisner

Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

Jorge Luis Borges

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

George Gershwin

It is always possible to create something original.

Eric Beder

the whole urban style has been co-opted by preppies.

Demi Lovato

My personal style is kind of sophisticated edgy, I guess. I wear a lot of black and it's what I feel comfortable in.

Sandra Ford

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

John Adams

There's just a real style to these boats.

Hao Fang

We just wanted to keep the style of the magazine.

Douglas Adams

I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style

Corbin Bleu

I know my style of music is very eclectic.

E. B. White

A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day.

E. B. White

To achieve style, begin by affecting none.

Blaise Pascal

Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

Claire Danes

I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.

Rick Rubin

I like things that are unique and extreme.

Tony Robbins

[There is] the need to feel unique, special, important or needed. Everybody has those needs, including the people that say I don't need to be special.

Rem Koolhaas

There are essentially two possibilities. One is to be, shall we say, an average architect and do the same thing everywhere. The other is to let yourself be inspired and even changed by the unique qualities of the place where you're building. We always try to take the second approach.

Timur Bekmambetov

The unique idea of [The Darkest Time] movie is because in usual if you are in darkness, you are scared. But this movie is the opposite. In darkness, you are okay.

Sonia Rykiel

I don't like women who are multiform, who wear many different shapes. Women who retain a unique shape are usually unique people.

Rutger Hauer

Blade Runner' is such a unique film. How do you describe a diamond? I don't think you should ever touch it again.

Rush Limbaugh

This not a criticism of [Mitt] Romney; please don't anybody call him up and say I'm ripping him. I'm not. I'm simply telling you that the connection [Donald] Trump has with his supporters, slash, audience, is unique. Not everybody politician has it, and certainly not every public figure has such a connection with their audience.