David Sylvester Quotes
Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it.
David Sylvester
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I like routine.
Gail Porter
I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.
Wayne Rogers
Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.
B. D. Wong
After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
Pankaj Mishra
People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, because I'm not really sure. It's somewhere in between London, Rome, Paris, and Rio.
Vincent Cassel
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
Walt Whitman
I never thought of myself as a comedian. That is a label – make me laugh. I want to make you think.
Bassem Youssef
A melody is not merely something you can hum.
Aaron Copland
Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
Venus Williams
We lived near a supermarket, and whatever they threw away, we would get it, and my mother would make soup. Or she would get a big can of lard, a big can of meal, a big can of flour, a big can of beans, and fix the same meal for months.
Ernie Banks
One can never tell what will be the result of faithful service rendered, nor do we know when it will come back to us or to those with whom we are associated. The reward may not come at the time, but in dividends later. I believe we will never lose anything in life by giving service, by making sacrifices, and doing the right thing.
Heber J. Grant
Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth what it feels like to do something; not what somebody looks like doing it.
David Sylvester
