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.

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.

Al Capp

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

Sally Singer

They're not collections based on an abstract definition of pretty, it's all what a sophisticated consumer would find charming.

John Van Hamersveld

With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design.

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.

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.

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.

Steven Smith

We will have to dip into our retirement savings if the strike goes on for a long time. Or else I'll find another job.

David Garrett

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.

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.

Damon Lindelof

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

Reggie McNeal

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

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.

Anthony Hopkins

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

Andy Bryant

The quarter and the year are progressing in line with our expectations.

Tony Abbott

Although our powers are great, they are not unlimited they are bounded by some lines of demarcation.

Bob Murray

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

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.

Ernest Hemingway

There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

Irving Stone

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Jean-Michel Basquiat

I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.

Cy Twombly

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

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.

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.

Kathryn Harrison

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Julia Glass

The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'