Marc Davis Quotes

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.

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• I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Struggle
  • Chaos

• You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Girl
  • Know
  • Me

• I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Years
  • Doing

• I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Look
  • Grow
  • Portrait

• I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

  

  Beck
  • True
  • Hair
  • Artist

• I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Time
  • Work
  • Mind

• I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Me
  • New
  • New York

• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Process

• The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Own

• To go back means defeat.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Back
  • Go
  • Defeat

• So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Like
  • Looks
  • Blow

• I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Work
  • Day
  • Gay

• In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Power
  • Order
  • Nuclear Power

• We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• ICOs are obviously a new and interesting form of funding for blockchain-based protocols, but it's not clear that all of them comply with U.S. securities laws or that all of them are companies that have good native use cases for new coins.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Laws

• I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Power
  • Help
  • Man

• My mom tells me the first show we saw was 'The Secret Garden,' but I don't remember that.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Mom

• An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Thinking
  • Father
  • Feeling

• I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Hero
  • Legend

• For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Nature
  • Plant
  • Plants

• A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Learn

• Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.

  

  O. Henry
  • Men
  • Eye
  • Comfort

• Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.

  

  Marc Davis
  • Experience
  • Giving
  • Drawing