James Polshek Quotes
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I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
Vince Vaughn -
Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
Manny Farber -
There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
Nathan Sawaya -
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
Ralph Bakshi -
The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
T Bone Burnett -
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
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As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
Patrick Rothfuss -
I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
Gallagher -
Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
Larry Rivers -
Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
Katarina Witt -
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Ed Koch -
Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
Dan Jenkins
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The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.
Walter Gropius -
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman -
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Samuel Butler -
My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.
Abraham Verghese -
I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.
Narciso Rodriguez -
I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
Yasmine Al Masri
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I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.
Zooey Deschanel -
It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
Anton Chekhov -
My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.
Bode Miller -
If you have any doubt about the degree with which this is self-defense, just look at those pictures from September 11th.
Condoleezza Rice -
When I'm out, maybe I'm looking at the fried chicken, but I know I need to order the grilled. But I'm still from the country. I love my fried food and my neck bones and all that, too.
Adrian Peterson -
I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.
James Polshek