Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Dan Colen

A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.

Sally Singer

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

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.

Ad Reinhardt

I was drafted in '45 and I was a sailor for a year. They didn't know what to do with me so they made a sort of photographer out of me.

Faith Ringgold

I think about what I'm trying to say and recognize the fact that people may see what I see or may hear what I'm saying or may not.

Don Bluth

In the corporate structure, you get people who are highly competitive with each other... Trying to get more money and more prestige.

Marc Davis

His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially and really I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today.

Marc Davis

I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young!

Max Cannon

I imagine I'll continue on doing it for many years to come.

Joe Murray

I'm drawing, animating and writing better than I've ever been before, and I love my life with my wife Carol and the excitement of our new baby!!

Lloyd Carr

I think it is certainly one of the better defensive teams in the country.

Stephen Black

It certainly doesn't get any harder, ... I think Townsville in Townsville is probably the big game.

Curt Fredrickson

It certainly didn't feel like a 10-point win, I can say that.

Donna Newman

It certainly did not comport with due process.

David Mann

It certainly did help to see some narrowing of the trade deficit -- but the real positive for sterling will be a 'steady as she goes' message from the Fed and then the next step will be to see what the inflation report tomorrow has to offer.

Paul Gianelli

It certainly comes as a shock to my client to be charged with a crime.

Pat Rice

It certainly can't hurt. And it will give some of the dated hotel properties downtown a reason to upgrade in order to compete.

Paul Silas

He can still play. He can certainly help somebody.

Bill Self

He deserves it. If you're going to tie for the championship, I think you have to have one guy up there. Brandon certainly played at a level deserving of that.

William Gilmore Simms

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Sarah Fielding

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

Roger Lempke

If we want to keep soldiers, we need to train them on modern equipment.

Gigi Hadid

In California, I'm more of a beach chick, and I kind of take on a model city girl when I'm in New York.

Cai Wu

In just over 100 years, the 'Southern Continent' has sprouted into a modern country.

John Adams

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

John Buchanan Robinson

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

Cy Twombly

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

Robert C. Solomon

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Andre Holland

I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for.

Henry Rollins

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

Larry Graham

I found a piece of paradise to call my own, and life is worth living again, for to love you, to me, is to live.

Ludwig van Beethoven

ever thine, ever mine, ever ours

Neville Marriner

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

John Green

That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjectival version of the word pedophile? You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

John Green

Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well.

John Green

You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.

Joe White

He didn't put them anyplace that they could be seen by children.

John DeLuca

There are so many other things for us to talk about that it just hasn't come up, ... We'll say 'How's it going?' and that's about it. By the end of the day, we've usually seen each other's work, anyway.

Charles Golvin

I haven't seen any discounting from Comcast other than the short-term discounts for signing up,

Steve Pardue

I have never seen that in my 21 years of coaching. We haven't done anything like that before. I'm not sure what happened.

James Dunn

I have never seen such solidarity. It was a consistently united voice.

Greg Willett

I have never seen him so white and sick.

Phil Jackson

I have never seen anything like that. It was pretty impressive.

Lori Crunk

I haven't actually seen it because every time I've been around it's been wrapped. I do know there was some discoloration and swelling.

Sadako Ogata

I have not seen such a crowded, what shall I say? ... Shelter-wise, very bad. ... I'm concerned.