Antony Gormley Quotes

Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do - making life flow more easily - but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction - they are completely different.

Antony Gormley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: August 30, 1950

Topics

LifeChangeBeautifulArtDirection

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne

DeathManI AmMeKnowNever

No one can understand my accent!

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

UnderstandAccent

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.

John Podhoretz

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I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

Steve Buscemi

LovedDidCarlinStand-UpSteve

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

Michael Ledeen

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I don't really have hobbies. I paint. I write. I direct videos. I take photos. I'm a creative person. A normal day for me is doing all of those things. Sometimes I stay up until 5 A.M. writing a song because I make music. It's the same with writing.

Michael Pitt

MusicDayCreativeMeWritingSong

To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

MusicLightMeStorySexKind

In the worst of our recession, bars were making money. Every bar can make money. If they're failing, it's not because of the president or Congress or Ukraine. It's because of them. And if you own failure, then you'll own success.

Jon Taffer

SuccessFailureMoneyMaking Money

I thought I was going to be a professor; then I ran screaming from there into magazine journalism.

Courtney A. Kemp

ThoughtJournalismProfessorGoing

If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.

Cliff Richard

LifeRoadRegretGuitarRestaurant

In chemical terms, radium differs little from barium; the salts of these two elements are isomorphic, while those of radium are usually less soluble than the barium salts.

Marie Curie

TwoLittleChemicalThanElements

I get 'Hodor' tweeted at me a lot.

Kristian Nairn

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