Adam Smith Quotes
All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.
Quotes to Explore
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.
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We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
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If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I'm going to wear him out.
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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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Even in cultures where marriages are arranged by parents, you're never actually forbidden to fall in love with your mate.
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In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American - on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.
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People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
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The earth is not in the centre of the Sun's orbit nor at the centre of the universe, but in the centre of its companion elements, and united with them. And any one standing on the moon, when it and the sun are both beneath us, would see this our earth and the element of water upon it just as we see the moon, and the earth would light it as it lights us.
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I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.
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Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
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I wake up early. At 6:30 A.M., I'm at my most optimistic.
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I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone.
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I don't accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.
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Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.
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If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
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Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.
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All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.
