Man Ray Quotes

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

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• I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Real

• If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Country
  • Enemy

• Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • God
  • Artist
  • Just

• Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Women
  • Age
  • Society

• The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • World
  • Country
  • Black

• I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Live
  • Single

• We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Religion
  • Islamic

• I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Think
  • Back
  • Take

• I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Feminist
  • Saying

• 'Srimanthudu' was very important for me and my career at that time, so I was tensed. But for 'Brahmotsavam,' honestly speaking, I am more excited because of its content. I have attempted something new, and I am keen to see how the audience receives it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Important
  • Career

• My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Parents
  • Painful

• I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Love
  • Happens
  • Saying

• I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • I Believe

• You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.

  

  B. Wayne Hughes
  • Work
  • Money
  • Work Hard

• After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Control
  • Thought
  • Abortion

• They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Together
  • Help
  • Game

• One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Kiss
  • London

• I do not doubt that if the Paradisal man could now appear among us, we should regard him as an utter savage, a creature to be exploited or, at best, patronised. Only one or two, and those the holiest among us, would glance a second time at the naked, shaggy-bearded, slow spoken creature: but they, after a few minutes, would fall at his feet.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Men
  • Fall

• Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Society

• Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Live
  • Justice
  • Competition

• Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

  

  Louise J. Kaplan
  • Children
  • Compassion
  • Sympathy

• In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back of the canvas. All my works from the cubist period, until about 1914, have my name and the date on the back side of the stretcher. I know someone spread the story that in Céret, Braque and I decided not to sign our pictures anymore. But that's just a legend!

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Name
  • Pictures
  • Signature

• To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

  

  Man Ray
  • Society
  • Painter
  • Useful