I love and collect contemporary art and go to all the art fairs. I love Damien Hirst and Matthew Barney. I grew up in Italy and had a humanistic education in philosophy and literature - things I love and appreciate. People are richer and more complex than just their day-to-day professional pursuits might suggest.
Nouriel Roubini
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I Sometimes we humans do not want to accept love for what it is. Love demands, transforms, and most of... JERLINE The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in... AND CITY Desperate Housewives. AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it. AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford] AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-... AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte... AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio... AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth... AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ... AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana. JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight, JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent, JILL AND Love can be simply stated to be the desire of the human being to integrate oneself with other selves... AWDHESH SINGH For the person who tortured me in jail. For the person who tortured the many of my followers a... AHMAD MOFTIZADEH Books! And cleverness! There are more important things-friendship and bravery and-oh Harry-be carefu... J.K. ROWLING FE + C is steel. U + I is love. JOAN COLLEEN R. KATIPUNAN Love is the answer ALBERT EINSTEIN Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An ... MARCEL PROUST Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mou... E. B. WHITE For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures ar... GORE VIDAL To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ROBERT SCHUMANN One day the world will look upon research
on animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.
... LEONARDO DAVINCI Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, i... A. ALVAREZ Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. JOHN LECARRE Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it le... ERICA JONG I have been no more than a medium, as it were. HENRI MATISSE The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel... ALEXANDER ELIOT Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Sco... MELVIN MADDOCKS Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath. OSCAR LEVANT The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. ... MARIA LENHART Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior amo... CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT From the shore.. one looks
upward to the sanddune grass..
10,000
green brushes attempting
where the... SAIOM SHRIVER Anyone who contributes to the defense fund
of pornographers is a mental moonbeam. MIKE ROYKO Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. EDWARD STEICHEN You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a p... EDWARD STEICHEN I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy. OSCAR LEVANT There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. ANSEL ADAMS An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. PAUL VALERY Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. AMBROSE BIERCE When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his li... G. K. CHESTERTON Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. HENRI MATISSE I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting. ROY LICHTENSTEIN Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. AL CAPP Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. TWYLA THARP I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass i... CLAES OLDENBURG Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. MARIE LAURENCIN Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. ANDRE GIDE The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the da... CYRIL CONNOLLY Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Give me a museum and I'll fill it. PABLO PICASSO I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true ge... BECK Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in... ANDREA DWORKIN Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. ANDY WARHOL An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reaso... ANDY WARHOL I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession,... BARBRA STREISAND The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performanc... ANSEL ADAMS You don't take a photograph, you make it. ANSEL ADAMS When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when... ARTHUR FELLIG The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has inc... PAUL GAUGUIN For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. GEORGES ROUAULT A great artist is always before his time or behind it. GEORGE MOORE I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt li... IGOR STRAVINSKY Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art. JAMES BAILEY Of all lies, art is the least untrue. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around. HUGH CASSON The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones an... HENRY MITCHELL The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the o... HENRY MILLE The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only a... GRACE GLUECK The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what d... JOHN UPDIKE The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. A... KENNETH TYNAN Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. DAWN FRENCH The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. DAVID HOCKNEY Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. FRANCOIS CAVANNA That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records mor... EDWARD GORDON CRAIG The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy ... DONAL HENAHAN When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not becaus... CHRISTIAN CARDELL CORBET I didn't have any interest in traditional art. CINDY SHERMAN Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art... PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet awa... PAUL STRAND Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words. NAPOLEON Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. WYNETKA ANN REYNOLDS Write. Don't think. Relax. RAY BRADBURY Colors that blend with the brick and the dark waters of the city's canals - greens, browns and the s... VICKY ELLIOTT What is art but a way of seeing?. THOMAS BERGER My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will ... PABLO PICASSO Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me... M. C. ESCHER I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It r... SARAH BRIGHTMAN I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Handling a woman is an art that no one masters. AHMED MOSTAFA If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with STEPHEN STILLS Cuz I can count on one hand the men who’ve loved me, not in the Biblical sense—I don’t have en... SHANNON CELEBI People say follow your heart,but I gave it to you. VICTORIA BOGARIN Sometimes you just want to change your status from Single to Stupid. ATTICA LUNDY love is temporary, hate is necessary. YOUNG BEEZY The meaning of life is not to live but to love. NEHA KOTHARI
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