Mickalene Thomas Quotes

With photography, you've captured a moment time - it's that moment only - and in painting, you play with it; you manipulate how time is presented. It's about fantasy and illusion and the creation of desire.

Mickalene Thomas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 28, 1971

Topics

TimeMomentPaintingPhotographyYou

I initially became a trainer in 2002 to help people shape their bodies, to help them look the way they wanted to look. This would reflect the way I was living. I was focusing on the exterior. Then in 2003/4, I had a paradigm shift. I started a business for bariatric patients, pre- and post-gastric bypass.

Jessie Pavelka

BusinessPeopleHelpLookLiving

I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.

Mel Gibson

ComplicatedWayThingsGetMake

Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

Maxwell Maltz

OpportunitiesYouCrisisWillStay

To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 'Into the Woods'. Like them, it is a play about enchantment and disillusion, dreams and reality.

Michael Dirda

DreamsMindNightWoodsReality

I have a certain memory of the way in which my father loved me until I was 10, and it was unconditional and eternal. I get to carry that for the rest of my life, but on a practical level after age 10, it's just me sort of figuring it out.

Sterling K. Brown

LifeFatherAgeMemoryMeRest

Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.

Sophie Kinsella

TimePeopleAmazingIdeasThinking

The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through.

Ronaldinho

MeToughYouPlayWaySee

When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.

Michelle Yeoh

FutureTodayPastFaceYouBad

My brother's really well-spoken.

Millie Bobby Brown

BrotherReally

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

Louis Sachar

I AmMeWritingThinkFeelResult

I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school.

Don Johnson

SchoolMeOutGoingIdeaNo Idea

It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

Delia Ephron

PeopleStandBloodWhoWhomMany

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