Philip Guston Quotes
I got sick and tired of all that Purity! Wanted to tell stories.. Guston's quote in 1967, referring to his swift from Abstract expressionism to figurative painting
Quotes to Explore
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I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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Tech companies tend to do tech best.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'
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I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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I meet fascinating people I respect and idolise all the time.
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Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.
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You have to be in the right place at the right time and understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.
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I'm a big fan of Edouard Vuillard, so I'd like anything by him - particularly a painting called 'Madame Hessel on the Sofa.' His work is realistic without being literal: I can really imagine what Madame Hessel is thinking.
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We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.
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I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.
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I got sick and tired of all that Purity! Wanted to tell stories.. Guston's quote in 1967, referring to his swift from Abstract expressionism to figurative painting
