Carlisle Floyd Quotes
Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
Carlisle Floyd
Quotes to Explore
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
Randeep Hooda
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
Barry Sternlicht
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
Rachel Bloom
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
Gail Simmons
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I suppose you have work tomorrow? That's quite sad, really.
Morrissey
The Smiths
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I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it’s usually a book about someone dysfunctional. To me bookstores are like brothels of imagination, each book is luring me over going, 'Read me, read me'.
Ruby Wax
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The argument that new vision becomes the reference point for the future, is a line that I have been driven to use on many occasions.
Nicholas Serota
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Aladdin, who said to his wife, I know it's not a lamp, keep rubbing! Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
Fernand Leger
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Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
Carlisle Floyd