Amy Sillman Quotes

I've never read a book on shape. I've read books on gesture; I've read tons of books on color, surface, field, ground, representation, abstraction. But I've never read a book on what a shape is.

Amy Sillman

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• It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Time
  • Never
  • Goal

• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Books
  • Shame

• I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Never
  • Interest
  • Snow

• I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Never
  • Explain

• I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Remember
  • Books
  • Paper

• I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Habit

• I never was a popular kid in class.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Never
  • Popular
  • Class

• The criteria, the only rule you should follow - the only rule - is to never touch a product or service unless, every time it is sold, part of the profit has to come back to you.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Time
  • Never
  • Service

• I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Children
  • Wife
  • Never

• I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Different
  • School
  • Never

• Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Books
  • Forgotten
  • Remembered

• Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Trust
  • Never
  • Hippie

• You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Me
  • See
  • Books

• I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Books
  • Ugly
  • Universal

• I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Never
  • Child
  • Around

• Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Like
  • Books
  • Pool

• Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Literature
  • Inspiration
  • Books

• Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Water
  • Never
  • Baby

• There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Never
  • Process
  • Bills

• On the advice of my U.K. publishers, I chose a sexless anonymity and published my first five books under the semi-pseudonym, S. J. Bolton. I was happy. I could hide behind a genderless, classless persona and let my creepy, psychological murder-mysteries speak for themselves.

  

  Sharon Bolton
  • Books
  • Mysteries
  • Anonymity

• I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • God
  • Sure

• Songwriters tell the truth.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Truth
  • Tell
  • Songwriters

• The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.

  

  Kate Williams
  • World
  • Past
  • Question

• I've never read a book on shape. I've read books on gesture; I've read tons of books on color, surface, field, ground, representation, abstraction. But I've never read a book on what a shape is.

  

  Amy Sillman
  • Never
  • Books
  • Shape