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It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
MALCOLM COWLEY It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
MALCOLM COWLEY Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing ...
GIANNI VERSACE 'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids...
FAIZON LOVE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.
JAMES ROSENQUIST Imagine the Sistine Chapel with just one or two figures on the ceiling.
MATT BAILEY It was like discovering the Sistine chapel if you didn't know there had been a Renaissance - like kn...
WILLIAM SATURNO The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bi...
PETER GREENAWAY There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, t...
LARRY POONS One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor...
EDVARD MUNCH Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON 'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids...
FAIZON LOVE [The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the...
ANTONIN SCALIA There's always been a relationship between the film world and fashion.
EDDIE REDMAYNE It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON When you go to the Sistine Chapel with Sophia Loren, it can be quite some time before your thoughts ...
ADAM WEST It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON There is no connection between the artists who performed at the event and ordinary, run-of-the-mill ...
DANIEL PEREZ The essence of the text was: You get the painting back when peace has been achieved between Israel a...
JIM MARGOLIN Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to ...
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THOMAS IAN NICHOLAS People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your chil...
JOE QUEENAN Michelangelo would have hated this exhibition. He wouldn't have wanted us to understand how he worke...
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LUIS FONSI People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on t...
JOHN BETJEMAN There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my deeper work.
RICHARD AVEDON The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see,...
NORMAN ROCKWELL There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There...
CHUCK CLOSE If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN GaGa is a digital baby - that's how they communicate. There cant be any layers between the artis...
TROY CARTER When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his li...
G. K. CHESTERTON There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists...
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JUDITH HILL Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's ...
MICHAEL KORDA He?s always been a tough kid, but now he?s anxious to get in there and fight, to open up and mix it ...
GREG HAGA He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani...
SUSAN HUBBARD In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been wi...
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STEPHEN COLBERT Male nudity, full-frontal nudity, has always been considered a lot more taboo than female nudity. As...
DARREN STAR No one shows love. There's no unity between the artists and the streets. There's none of tha...
SHY GLIZZY I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it...
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NORM MACDONALD For some reason I've been labeled that and it's fine, but there are a lot of other artists t...
ALAN JACKSON The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY There's never been any bad vibes between me and Snoop.
DR. DRE I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its ser...
GARY HUME Down through the ages, there has always been the spiritual path. It's been passed on - it always...
GEORGE HARRISON There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature an...
JOHN SCALZI We're able to run a cable into the chapel and have audio guys record from the studio.
TOM BIERER I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book...
JEFF LEMIRE I've always been a fan of football, always watched the NFL and it's great to always sit back...
ROB GRONKOWSKI What I say on a record and what I say off a record is two different things. And that's always be...
LL COOL J The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a ...
ALANIS MORISSETTE With L.A. it's like, yeah, there's Death Row and whatever. But I always wanted to know what ...
TY DOLLA SIGN When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch o...
MARC CHAGALL 'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists...
DAMIEN HIRST You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting i...
CHUCK CLOSE I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school ...
SHIRLEY EATON One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is tha...
ANDREW TOBIAS There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of,...
VERNON WELLS I've had my run-ins with department stores, like Harrods, which stopped selling fur coats, but I...
JOANNA LUMLEY I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of frict...
BILL BRUFORD Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is co...
RACHEL CUSK You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and l...
ERIC BETZIG There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel...
HUGO PRATT There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft...
MICHAEL RITCHIE Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and...
HAROLD EVANS We want to give as much as we can back to our sponsors and benefactors,
DAVID HARRIS There's a difference between, as I always say, the destination, the end point, and the journey. ...
BOB MENENDEZ The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists ...
ERIC FISCHL The sale of the painting is a disservice to artists, to art, to architecture, to the architecture pr...
PHILIP JOHNSON There have always been female artists and singers putting bands together all the time. But we were n...
BETTY WRIGHT The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But th...
CAT STEVENS We'll have a group of artists in different locations outside the center, painting in different mediu...
LYNNE SALISBURY There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.
MEGHAN O'ROURKE I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says ...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the c...
RENEE FLEMING Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism...
ANNIE LENNOX I never had a particular sound. There was no Lou Adler sound like there's a Phil Spector sound. ...
LOU ADLER There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time whe...
DON DELILLO I want to fall in love, I think. I've never. I know. Everyone I know's been in love or in re...
CARA DELEVINGNE And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins
C.S. LEWIS Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone c...
WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT We are hoping the INS may back down.
LAURA FABAR It hurts us not having Jon back there. I am very comfortable with both Jessie and Bobby. They're bot...
STEVE HOWEY Everybody thought I was crazy. They thought I should take the money and run. But there was just some...
LORRIE FAIR How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.
LARRY POONS I guess I'm kind of interested in that elusive search for a bond between life and work and betwe...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's...
MELISSA ETHERIDGE Across the street, we had a drive-by shooting, and there
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JON PARDI First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic....
JON LOVITZ If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the e...
JON MEACHAM Gallien cứ băn khoăn không hiểu liệu có phải anh đã nhặt ở cuối bang thứ bốn...
JON KRAKAUER Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and ...
JON TENNEY Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their...
JON LANDAU It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything els...
JON LANDAU I held top-secret security clearance.
JON OSSOFF I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just ...
JON BELLION I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the pa...
JON OSSOFF It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. Wha...
JON MEACHAM I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, ...
JON MEACHAM We played Carnegie Hall, and that was one time where I felt... Carnegie Hall as a legendary, very ve...
JON BATISTE It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private ...
JON MEACHAM We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings d...
JON STEWART An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the reje...
JON MEACHAM Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood...
JON KYL I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay ...
JON JOHANSEN I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You w...
JON ANDERSON Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. ...
JON FOREMAN I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read DSM-IV when you're not a ...
JON RONSON The DSM-IV-TR is a 943-page textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association that sells fo...
JON RONSON I would say television is a focus, and expanding our channel platform is a focus. As for buying libr...
JON FELTHEIMER I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in ...
JON KRAKAUER Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.
JON LOVITZ