Gary Hume Quotes

If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.

Gary Hume

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• Hunting
• Desperate
• Magazines
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• With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Passion
  • Purpose
  • Poetry

• I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Feeling
  • Small
  • Me

• I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Training
  • Research
  • Self-Taught

• I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Party
  • Republican
  • Opposition

• You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Time
  • Different
  • Country

• I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Soul
  • Convinced

• I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Control
  • Attention
  • Details

• I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Time
  • Job
  • Remember

• I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Record
  • Comfortable

• The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

  

  Nas
  • Soul
  • Feeling
  • Me

• People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Tired
  • Weakness
  • Boils

• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Done
  • Art
  • Help

• I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Live

• If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Succeed
  • Possibilities
  • Proof

• I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scared of me. That's just kind of the nature of who I am as a person and player. But I also know that you have to be emotional. You have to be in touch with your feelings. I think that's important.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Nature
  • Player
  • Feelings

• Bullfights are a very cultural thing. I know many people think it's cruel, but so many things are cruel. Hunting, the electric chair, wars. These are all cruel things as well.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • People
  • Think
  • Hunting

• If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Poverty

• I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon.

  

  Rebecca Sugar
  • Poetry
  • Should
  • Adventure

• Dyslexia, though, made me realise that people who say 'but you can't do that' aren't actually very important. I don't take 'no' too seriously.

  

  Richard Rogers
  • Important
  • Seriously
  • Actually

• I don't think I'm capable of writing without caffeine. And most of the time, that caffeine comes from iced tea.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Tea

• Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.

  

  Democritus
  • Life
  • Men
  • Intelligent

• Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hell

• If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Poetry
  • Hunting
  • Desperate