Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes

Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.

Chris Gardner

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• He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Painting
  • Matter
  • Pleasure

• Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Art

• Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Great
  • Painting
  • Pleasure

• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Magic

• He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Painting

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• I thought that the painter had no right to paint so unclearly.. ..(but) the first faint doubt as to the importance of an 'object' as the necessary element in painting.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Doubt
  • Painting

• Latino people have come up to me and said they were motivated to become a lawyer because they saw me play one on TV - and you can't discount how great it is when they tell me I was the first.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• The substance of painting is light.

  

  Andre Derain
  • Light
  • Painting

• I counterfeited Mark Kostabi's artworks. During the eighties, Mark didn't paint his own paintings. Instead, he had other artists painting them, and he just added his signature. So what I did was to use some of the same painters, and signed his name myself.

  

  Andy Behrman
  • Painting

• Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don't need a certain background. You don't need to be a lawyer. You don't need to have some professional degree.

  

  Matt Gonzalez
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Running

• If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Music
  • Fear
  • Painting

• I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Painting

• The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Lawyer

• People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a lawyer, but I play one at City Hall.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • People
  • City
  • Lawyer

• I was so intent as a young lawyer on beating the men at their own game that I didn't take any real maternity leave with my three younger children. It is only looking back that I realise I wasn't beating the system but reinforcing it.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • Men
  • Children
  • Real

• Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

  

  Philip Guston
  • Painting
  • Miracle

• I was going to be a lawyer, and I had studied hard, but then it suddenly occurred to me in a very deep, profound way that I didn't want to keep practicing law for the rest of my life.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • Life
  • Law
  • Rest

• I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth, or autobiography, which I think is partially the burden of artists of color - or women, or anybody who is representing a so-called minority position. Are you actually telling a true story, or your own story? You don't just get to tell a story. The readings of the work didn't necessarily conform to my own understanding of mythology, where violence and eroticism and the body and all of these different forms coexist all the time.

  

  Chitra Ganesh
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Reading

• We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • American
  • History
  • Black

• I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Mind
  • Character

• Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Painting
  • Lawyer
  • Passionate