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

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• I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Love
  • Game
  • Lucky

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Very
  • Days
  • Humanitarian

• Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Fail
  • Could
  • Expense

• 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.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • School
  • Kids
  • Government

• Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • World
  • Together
  • Democracy

• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Tree
  • Born

• No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Think
  • Appreciation
  • Him

• 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.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Study
  • Too Much
  • Cricket

• By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Reality

• Tech companies tend to do tech best.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Best
  • Tend
  • Tech

• 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.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Up
  • Love
  • Single

• 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.'

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Think
  • Lying
  • Said

• 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.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Money
  • Families

• 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.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Done
  • Career
  • Years

• Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Life
  • Society
  • Punishment

• I meet fascinating people I respect and idolise all the time.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • People
  • Time
  • Respect

• I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine 'photojournalism' is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Movie
  • Reality
  • Respect

• I just feel like every kid is growing up too fast and they're seeing too much. Everything is about sex, and that's fine for me. I'm not saying I don't like it. But I don't think it should be everywhere, where kids are exposed to everything sexual. Because they have to have some innocence; there's just no innocence left.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Growing

• 'The qualities which produce the dogged, unbeatable courage of the British, personified at the time by Winston Churchill, can appear in other settings as stubbornness bordering on stupidity.'

  

  Dean Acheson
  • Time
  • Courage

• As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.

  

  R. H. Tawney
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• I'm not at yoga all the time, but equally, I'm not being sick after a night out.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Time
  • Night
  • Sick

• 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

  

  Philip Guston
  • Painting
  • Tired
  • Sick