Anzia Yezierska Quotes

I'd like to think I'm a versatile artist without straying too far from who I am.

Anzia Yezierska

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• I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Live
  • Country
  • America

• Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Art
  • Criticism

• I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Comedy

• I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Years
  • Face
  • Scare

• You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Know

• Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Age
  • Culture

• Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Future
  • Achievement
  • Gender

• The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Mind
  • Poetry
  • End

• Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Life
  • Work
  • Pleasure

• I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Technology

• We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Live
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• I think every woman in their life wants to give a good face smack.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Life
  • Good
  • Woman

• My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Country
  • House
  • Dream

• Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Time
  • Election

• There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Today
  • Value

• I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Team
  • Like
  • Feel

• One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.

  

  Samantha Power
  • President
  • Face
  • Genocide

• A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

  

  William Bernbach
  • People
  • Failing
  • Campaigns

• Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Propositions

• Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • World
  • Nature
  • Artist

• We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"

  

  Bill T. Jones
  • Artist
  • Vision
  • Dancers

• Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly." I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Political
  • Artist
  • Statement

• I'd like to think I'm a versatile artist without straying too far from who I am.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Artist
  • Versatile