Philip Guston Quotes

O’Hara was in his most non-stop way of talking, saying that the pictures put him in mind of Tiepolo Spanish wall-painter, c. 1750. Certain cupola frescoes. Suddenly I was working in an ancient building, a warehouse facing the Giudecca. The loft over the firehouse was transformed. It was filled with light reflected from the canal. quote in 1955

Philip Guston

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• The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Life
  • Will
  • Loss

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Learning
  • Living
  • Will

• It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Real
  • Hair
  • Care

• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Quiet

• When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Life
  • Confidence

• Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
  • Day
  • Always

• I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Movie
  • Free
  • Me

• When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • World
  • Different
  • Important

• I didn't particularly like being objectified.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Like
  • Being
  • Particularly

• I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Myself
  • Laugh

• In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Good
  • Way
  • Screen

• You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Work
  • Real
  • Remember

• My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Life
  • Being
  • Just

• As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Experience
  • Job
  • Personal

• No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Family
  • Jewish
  • Identify

• The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

  

  Bill Drayton
  • Friends

• Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely, And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frenssh of Parys was to hire unknowe.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  • She
  • Service

• I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Confidence
  • Television

• Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.

  

  Pliny the Elder

• When you're doing Sebring in the back straight at 185 or 187, and the car's moving, you gotta know what to do with it, how to read it. Just the science of understanding shocks - forget spring rates - is mind-boggling.

  

  Craig T. Nelson
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Moving

• O’Hara was in his most non-stop way of talking, saying that the pictures put him in mind of Tiepolo Spanish wall-painter, c. 1750. Certain cupola frescoes. Suddenly I was working in an ancient building, a warehouse facing the Giudecca. The loft over the firehouse was transformed. It was filled with light reflected from the canal. quote in 1955

  

  Philip Guston
  • Mind
  • Light
  • Stop