Lucian Freud Quotes

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

Lucian Freud

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 8, 1922 - July 20, 2011

Topics

WorkI AmMePersonWantPaint

I would watch Gonzalez play and he mesmerized you. It would be like looking into the flame of a fire. You know you couldn't take your eyes off him because you never knew what he would do next.

Jimmy Connors

EyesFireLookingFlameYouPlay

My sister called her pillow a pilgo. My brother called his pacifier his nimma. But I don't think I was much of a word generator myself.

Andrew Clements

MyselfBrotherSisterThinkPillow

I think it is very important that films make people look at what they've forgotten.

Spike Lee

PeopleThinkLookImportantI Think

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

Mike Myers

TimeRejectionLongCareerLong Time

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.

Dennis Prager

DayUnhappyComplainingMoreGet

I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.

Debbie Gibson

LifeNew YorkPeopleMeMy LifeNew

The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can't do anything.

David Steinberg

GoodPeopleComedyRejectionYou

For whatever reason, from a young age I've always been able to shoot images and cut them together with sound in a way that was very engaging.

Colin Trevorrow

AgeTogetherYoungWaySoundReason

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

Sydney J. Harris

CommunicationWordsGivingTwoOut

While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

WorkAttentionCaptureRecovery

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.

Thurston Moore

PoetryPeopleNowBandWithinTell

Movies can be instruments of enlightenment.

Marianne Williamson

EnlightenmentMoviesInstruments

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