Lucian Freud Quotes

Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

Lucian Freud

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PictureCopyNextUpInterestGoing

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

Jerry Della Femina

GreatCityAdvertisingYouThree

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Robert Orben

TimeTime FliesYouUpFlies

I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I know how to compose - and people who aren't related to me read them. To be paid to write things that matter to me is extraordinary.

Amy Bloom

PeopleMeInterestingKnowMatter

It is truly vital for the United States to assure that it is not attacked with weapons of mass destruction; to prevent wars in other countries from spreading onto American soil; and to maintain access to global sea lanes on which our economy depends. Beyond that, there is little or nothing in the world that should draw the United States to war.

Stephen Kinzer

SeaWarWorldAmericanNothingSoil

The Taliban, broadly speaking, are Afghans - farmers, subsistence farmers. As I say, most of those people can't find the United States on the map. Al Qaeda, traditionally, are much more educated, middle-class people, often from Egypt, from Saudi Arabia, North Africa.

Rory Stewart

PeopleFindSayEgyptMapFarmers

In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.

Rosamund Pike

GameYouThingsOriginalOnlyDoom

I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.

Mary Karr

ThinkProblemMediaVisualLikeTV

Forcing polarized groups into a swarm allows them to find the answer that most people are satisfied with.

Louis B. Rosenberg

PeopleFindSatisfiedAnswerForcing

I know people who have written big hit country songs that are really kind of terrible songs, but for the rest of their life, they're the guy who wrote that. You've got to be careful; if you don't want that to happen, don't write those songs.

Jason Isbell

LifePeopleRestYouCountryKnow

The Rwandan policy of putting the genocide behind them is incredibly effective in many ways. But it's also incredibly frightening to think that this nation is being asked put this mass slaughter behind them.

Dinaw Mengestu

ThinkNationGenocidePolicyBeing

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Douglas William Jerrold

AlwaysFreshRecruitingLikeVictims

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

TimeIllusionLunchtimeDoubly

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