Jim Lee Quotes
I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn't necessarily directly influence the work I draw on the page.
Quotes to Explore
-
I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.
-
The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.
-
Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
-
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.
-
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
-
I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.
-
Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
-
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
-
The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.
-
Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.
-
If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.
-
From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor, I reported in a publication about the thinkers. Our offices were in a former mansion; I worked in what had been the ballroom. As I sat typing my copy, I imagined the dancers waltzing.
-
When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true.
-
I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.
-
Because it started as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL has long been subject to U.N. sanctions, and all countries have a legal obligation to freeze its assets and prohibit its business dealings. But countries around the world need to do more to make these sanctions work.
-
If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.
-
I do hope to be an adult actor. But if it doesn't work out, I've been thinking about doing something in the medical therapy field, chiropractics or something like that. I've always been into the idea of helping people medically, but I can't stand blood or surgery. That freaks me out. So this would be a bloodless way to help people.
-
My husband plunged into work on a speech and I went off to work on an article. Midnight came and bed for all, and all that was said was 'good night, sleep well, pleasant dreams, with the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.'
-
Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, A good mouth-filling oath.
-
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
-
I want to rebuild America.
-
Anything can happen someday, even that an act conforming to honour and honesty can end up, at the end of the line, as a good political decision.
-
I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn't necessarily directly influence the work I draw on the page.
