Matthew Barney Quotes

Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.

Matthew Barney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 25, 1967

Topics

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It's easy to point out the evil in other people, but that can be found in all of us. That selfishness, that is something we all have in us. Sometimes you are successful at dealing with it, and sometimes you are not.

Jeff Bridges

PeopleEvilEasyYouSometimesOut

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Stephen Hawking

SciencePhysicsUpModernKept

As good as NFL Films is at making players human, it's even better at making players superhuman. No Hollywood studio has made movies that are more grand or gorgeous. Every meticulous shot of 'Hard Knocks' is a vision: every slow-motion spiral, every shaved head steaming like a Manhattan manhole cover.

Steve Rushin

GoodVisionBetterMoviesHollywood

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

Minoru Yamasaki

WorkBuildingsBeenRatherOur

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

Jasper Johns

WorkFreedomPossibilitiesPathsOwn

I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people.

Christian Louboutin

PeopleSurpriseHelpI CanBecome

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

Clive Bell

GoodBelieveQuestionsRecognition

I love horses. There's something practical and mystical about them.

William Shatner

LoveSomethingPracticalMystical

People look at me, and they don't see what they think is a typical Aboriginal. I always thought I'd be the white person in a black play.

Shari Sebbens

PeopleMeBlackThinkThoughtLook

It's really hard to meet good women in Hollywood.

Lyndsy Fonseca

GoodWomenMeetHollywoodHard

China-Africa relationship has a long history and is full of vitality. Since the 1950s and 1960s, our common historical experiences have brought China and Africa together, and we have forged deep friendship in our joint struggle during which we have supported each other in times of difficulty.

Li Keqiang

FriendshipRelationshipHistoryDeep

I think I have never seen a humorless movie that was any good to me.

Kenneth Lonergan

GoodMeThinkNeverSeenMovie

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