Ben Eine Quotes
A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way.
Quotes to Explore
-
A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
-
I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
-
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
-
For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
-
Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
-
I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
-
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
-
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
-
I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
-
We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
-
I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
-
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
-
I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
-
I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
-
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
-
When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.
-
I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!
-
We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
-
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
-
No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.
-
A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way.
