Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Nicholson

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Mary Lambert

Yes, I would loved to have just sustained myself through my art, but less than one in a billion musicians gets that life. So rather than being like, 'I'm an exception!', like a moron, I thought I'd get a real job.

Charles Bukowski

escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you.

Charles Bukowski

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

Charles Bukowski

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Charles Bukowski

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Charles Bukowski

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.

Charles Bukowski

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

Jane Austen

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

Katrina Kaif

For me, physical beauty is never the reason for attraction to anyone.

Kevyn Aucoin

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul, and sometimes even in myself.

Khalil Gibran

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.

Khalil Gibran

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.

Khalil Gibran

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Khalil Gibran

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.

Jonathan Swift

For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.

Jonathan Swift

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms ...

Marion Hammer

We owe it to the people of the state of Florida to make it as convenient as possible for them to register to vote. People who work for a living don't want to have to go down to the courthouse to register to vote.

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man

Mike White

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

Remy de Gourmont

To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?

Sonia Braga

I keep boxes filled with recuerdos - little memories that are in the form of pictures and events that I've written down. It's funny that I chose to write them in Spanish rather than English or Portuguese.

Sonia Braga

It's like I'm stuck in a time bubble. Memories keep coming back, and of course, memories are a huge part of literature and cinema, from "Stand by Me" to "Blade Runner."

Rutger Hauer

I've seen attack ships on fire on the shoulder of Orion, I've seen moon beams glisten at the Ten hauser gate, all those memories, lost like tears in the rain...

Tony Buzan

For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind. Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often?

Tom Waits

Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.

Steven Johnson

Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.

Steven Johnson

Who is giving the orders to ants? No one. They are self-organizing. Each of our immune systems get smarter over the years as its biochemical parts share information, and it responds with individualized defenses, but it isn't conscious and it has no memory. The host of that party didn't decree that everyone would gather in the kitchen, but it happened anyway. Emergence means we sometimes act in concert for better or worse.

Steven Johnson

Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory, in the dense network of your neurons. Most slow hunches pass in and out of our memory too quickly, precisely because they possess a certain murkiness. You get a feeling that there's an interesting avenue to explore, a problem that might lead you to a solution, but then you get distracted by more pressing matters and the hunch disappears. So part of the secret of hunch cultivation is simple: write everything down.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Runners are poor walkers.

Julie Chen

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.