Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Capra

Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I don't follow any kind of 'isms.' If there is one, it will be Pram-ism.

Gilbert Adair

All isms end in fascism.

George Seaton

There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.

Huston Smith

All -isms end up in schisms.

Jim Shaw

I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.

M. F. K. Fisher

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

Thomas Keating

One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.

Tibor Kalman

I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

Charlie Chaplin

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

Charles de Gaulle

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

Charles de Lint

There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.

Charles de Lint

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.

Charles de Lint

It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.

Charles Dickens

There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.

Charles Dickens

We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.

Alan Watts

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

Alan Moore

You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

David Milne

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

Edward Hopper

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

David Hockney

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

Barnett Newman

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Edgar Degas

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Edouard Manet

I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.

Balthus

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

Balthus

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.