Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Kittle

This was one of the rotten things that happened.

Henry Rollins

The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.

Karl Marx

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

Nicholas Culpeper

For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.

Curtis Sliwa

A rotten apple in the Guardian Angels stigmatizes us all over the world.

Kathy Acker

We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.

John Calvin

Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

Mitch Albom

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

John Waters

Life is a rotten lottery.

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.

Brittany Howard

I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.

Damon Galgut

I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.

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.

Jacquelyn Singer

The courses I took were very rigorous and demanding, teaching me how to draw from real life. I started to get bored with that mode of expression as I found it to be too repetitive. I was looking to push myself to do something different and abstract art seemed to be the perfect outlet for that.

Michael Graf

Everybody is for peace. Nobody says they're against it. But we really wanted to take this abstract idea and put a human face to it, and let people know the idea of peaceful resolution isn't just something that needs to happen on the far side of the globe. It's something that needs to happen here too.

H. Hunt

It's like communism, in an abstract manner. No matter how many gold medals these Temecula boys give each other, in my opinion, they're afraid of the quality of my wine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional.

Matthew Macfadyen

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Spalding Gray

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

G. H. Hardy

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

Fred Gwynne

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as a portrait painter I wouldn't be able to support a goldfish.