Marilyn Minter Quotes

The thrill of a photo-realist painter is if you get really close to the painting, it looks just like a photograph. Whereas in my case, if you get close to my paintings, they totally fall apart - so I'm about as far from a photo-realist as it gets.

Marilyn Minter

Quotes to Explore

But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.

Utada Hikaru
- Music
- Words
- Relationship
Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.

Olympia Dukakis
- Women
- Age
- Society
That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.

Dan Quinn
- Want
- Me
- Play
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

Vanna Bonta
- Life
- Different
- Picture
A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.

Gary Hamel
- Home
- Coffee
- Page
I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

Rachel Cusk
- Life
- Country
- Parents