Nicholas Serota Quotes

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• The first step... shall be to lose the way.

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Lose
  • Step
  • First Step

• Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

  

  Mae West
  • Never
  • Two
  • Take

• Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • World
  • Reality

• An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Better
  • Soup
  • Roses

• In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Sales

• Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mind
  • You
  • Conflict

• I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Reading

• Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Sexy

• By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Imagination
  • Sleep
  • Partner

• As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Love
  • Fighting
  • Lies

• We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Kids
  • Support
  • Wife

• Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Lawyers

• I believe that women should be treated just like men.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Enjoy

• There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Trying
  • Effort
  • Limits

• An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

  

  Nance O'Neil
  • Art
  • She
  • True

• I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • School
  • Love
  • Now

• For my part, I have worked all my life with eggs and embryos of frogs. Compared to other small animals, these have figured prominently in the world of literature.

  

  John Gurdon
  • Life
  • World
  • Small

• 'Fast Life' is just about going out with your friends and having a good time - I think it's one of those songs that people can relate with and like.

  

  Joe Jonas DNCE
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Different
  • Together
  • Culture

• Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and off of trees, etc., in order to strengthen their nervous system... They ought to practice leaping off heights into deep water. They ought never to hesitate to cross a stream over a narrow unsafe plank for fear of a ducking. They ought never to decline to climb up a tree, to pull fruit merely because there is a possibility of their falling off and breaking their necks. I firmly believe that boys were intended to encounter all kinds of risks, in order to prepare them to meet and grapple with risks and dangers incident to man’s career with cool, cautious self-possession...

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Risk
  • Childhood
  • Boys

• Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Unique

• UBS have been important supporters of Tate Modern since 2000 and we are delighted to announce this exciting and unique partnership.

  

  Nicholas Serota
  • Unique
  • Partnership
  • Supporters