Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grant Smith

If I painted him I would probably just paint like his eye -- completely just beet red because it had some many drugs in it or something. Or maybe just a zoom in on a forearm or something ... just where it looks like an abstract painting but it's just veins.

C. S. Lewis

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

Willem de Kooning

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

Wassily Kandinsky

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

Richard Shelton

Our language is polarized. Concrete words are usually the language of poets. Abstract words are usually the language of politicians.

Lynsey Addario

The truth is, the difference between a studio photographer and a photojournalist is the same as the difference between a political cartoonist and an abstract painter; the only thing the two have in common is the blank page. The jobs entail different talents and different desires.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.

Gary Graves

The difference from project to project is that departure point. In this case, it was really an abstract idea, an issue of citizenship, but it might be a Chekhov short story or a story from 'The Iliad.' You can really fit anything in there, but what's consistent is that the writer and the director are chosen, the actors are all present before the play begins.

Al Capp

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Jim Harper

This is a symbol of what's to come - that is, the government expecting to be able to dip into private databases to do all kind of surveillance and research.

Roger Daltrey

I'm not always the most diplomatic person.

Vijay Singh

If I don't like someone, I'll let that person know. I'm not very diplomatic. I understand that.

Jerramy Stevens

He has been on some championship teams, so he knows when it's coming. He is able to dip out of that pretty slick.

Arturo Gonzalez

In my view, this is the end of the political process. The only way these kids will get a diploma now is if a judge orders an injunction.

Nicholas Hoult

My mum always says work goes in waves: you have a good spell and then it dips.

Kurtis Blow

My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.

John Hay

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

Bobbi Brown

After I brush on my moisturizer, I'll dip the same brush into foundation and mix it with the lotion to make tinted moisturizer.

Jim Lushine

Rain will be as heavy, if not heavier. You don't want to be walking around out there with possible downed power lines and debris. It's not over until it's over.

John O'Brien

PPI this morning was in line with what was expected, showing low inflation.

Derrick Jensen

The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.

Damon Lindelof

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

Ayatollah Ali

Continuation of this stance and observing (these issues) as a red line is the only way for success.

Reggie McNeal

We missed him a little bit, ... but whoever is the second man in line has to step up and play.

Dan Harmon

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

Ani Difranco

Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.

Angela Sarafyan

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

Bob Murray

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Alfred Sisley

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Robert Henri

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

Tom Wolfe

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

Roy Lichtenstein

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

Max Cannon

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

Philip Guston

I'm not interested in painting; I'm not interested in making a picture. Then what the hell am I interested in? I must be interested in this process.

Philip Guston

What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where only certain things can happen, unaccountably the unknown and free must appear.

Ernst Haas

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Sam Phillips

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

Hugh Johnson

We're all watching the same stuff. Like sheep.

Andy Robinson

It has been killing me watching from the stands, I want to get back into the action,

Brian Urlacher

If I was someone, I'd do the same to us after watching that film.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Charles Kettering

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.

LaMarr Woodley

You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard.