Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

Ai Weiwei

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

Cecile Richards

This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.

Carolyn Maloney

Where are the women? The women are here.

Charlie Hunnam

I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.

Barbara Walters

This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.

Barbra Streisand

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

Arthur Erickson

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Dianna Agron

Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn’t kill people, though. I was just a badass

Chris Bangle

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

Chesty Puller

Where the hell do you put the bayonet?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself.

Charlie Chaplin

Why not? After all, it belongs to him.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.

Demi Lovato

There's gonna be haters, but don't let them affect you, don't let them take away a part of you.

Demi Lovato

Instead of looking in the mirror and focusing on your flaws, look in the mirror and appreciate your best features... everyone has them.

Demi Lovato

You're beautifully and wonderfully made.

Demi Lovato

Be proud of who you are.

Andy Goldsworthy

The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.

Henri Matisse

I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.

Julie Mitchell

I don't do sculpture in the traditional sense,

Constantin Brancusi

Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?

Damien Hirst

I have titles floating around in my head; I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage.

Anne Sexton

I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual where, on the cold bathroom tiles, I was spread out daily and examined for flaws. I did not know that my bones, those solids, those pieces of sculpture would not splinter.

Alexander Pope

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

Anthony Caro

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.

Ellsworth Kelly

The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.