Brian Sewell Quotes

I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. And it isn't someone walking around with a salmon over his shoulder or embroidering the name of everyone they have slept with on the inside of a tent.

Brian Sewell

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• Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Words

• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Danger
  • Protection

• I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Friend
  • Best

• I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Black

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Women
  • Book
  • Most

• I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Believe
  • Politics
  • Any

• Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Done
  • History
  • Pretty

• A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Dream
  • City
  • Girlfriend

• Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Education
  • Learning

• Making products that we sell around the world stamped with three proud words: Made in the USA.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Words
  • Proud

• It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• When you're up against a trouble,Meet it squarely, face to face;Lift your chin and set your shoulders,Plant your feet and take a brace.When it's vain to try to dodge it,Do the best that you can do;You may fail, but you may conquer,See it through!

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Up
  • May
  • Plant

• Love is not all: it is not meat nor drinkNor slumber nor a roof against the rain;Nor yet a floating spar to men that sinkAnd rise and sink and rise and sink again;Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;Yet many a man is making friends with deathEven as I speak, for lack of love alone.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Alone

• You think it impossible the Convention could have a thought of war with Great Britain, and the conquest of Canada. In this point I differ from you very widely. The conduct of Great Britain, and the conduct of our States, too, was such as to keep up very serious apprehensions between the two powers. The treaty of peace was not fulfilled on either side.

  

  John Adams
  • Up
  • Great
  • War

• Così fa ch'ella un poco il duol raffrena;Ch'avendo ove sfogarlo, è meno acerbo.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Time

• When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Control
  • Patience

• From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.

  

  Bill Condon

• Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or artistic movement.

  

  Jim Lee
  • Life
  • Real
  • Art

• There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.

  

  Liberty Hyde Bailey
  • Done

• You need to live a little bit outside your comfort zone because you can be even more than you dream of.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Live
  • Dream

• Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • Good
  • Different

• I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. And it isn't someone walking around with a salmon over his shoulder or embroidering the name of everyone they have slept with on the inside of a tent.

  

  Brian Sewell
  • Art