David Shrigley Quotes

Making drawings with text in the first place, it really was born of a desire to be economic, and to do things as simply as possible, and to do as much as I could by the most economic means.

David Shrigley

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• My work... is my legacy.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Work
  • Legacy

• I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Shoulder
  • Reconstruction

• I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Book
  • Library

• For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Remember

• If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Stop
  • Singing
  • Voice

• I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Live
  • Sometimes
  • Bus

• I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Me
  • Mirror
  • Perception

• I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Want

• Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Great
  • Success
  • Interesting

• I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Successful

• Everything starts as somebody's daydream.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Everything
  • Starts
  • Daydream

• People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • People
  • Action
  • Me

• Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Parents
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• I heard the hiss and felt the blessed numbness spreading. If there is a God, I thought, it’s a painkiller.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • God
  • Blessed

• 'Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Path

• We manipulate fabric.

  

  Anna Sui

• There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Art
  • Nature

• 'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Mean
  • Safety
  • Punk

• In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

  

  Philip Guston
  • Experience
  • Desire
  • Painting

• Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.

  

  William James
  • Moral
  • Anxiety
  • Youth

• When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Mistakes
  • Camera
  • Pictures

• Making drawings with text in the first place, it really was born of a desire to be economic, and to do things as simply as possible, and to do as much as I could by the most economic means.

  

  David Shrigley
  • Desire
  • Mean
  • Born