Tom Wesselmann Quotes

The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.

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• For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • Play

• The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Future
  • Way
  • Religious

• I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Work
  • Me
  • Artist

• I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Way
  • Me
  • Writer

• I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Artist
  • Partner
  • Bridge

• The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Artist
  • Worst
  • Unhappy

• The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Way
  • Play
  • Best

• I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.

  

  Barbara Kopple
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.

  

  Usher
  • Music
  • Way
  • Idea

• I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Me
  • Look
  • Challenges

• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Gentleman

• My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Giving
  • Way
  • Situation

• My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Character
  • Way
  • Works

• I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Way
  • Look
  • Artificial

• Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Up
  • High
  • Success

• Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Music
  • Way
  • Sound

• I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Day
  • Artist
  • Everyday

• To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Way
  • Talk
  • Roll

• I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Up
  • Way
  • Law

• A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • True
  • Man

• Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.

  

  Nick Gordon
  • Friends
  • Christian
  • inspirational

• This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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  • Force
  • Truths

• The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.

  

  Tom Wesselmann
  • Way
  • Artist
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