Brice Quotes & Sayings

Well you know, I've been into music my whole life, so to be able to put an album together with some of that music was awesome. — Lee Brice

Willie Nelson is not just a star or a headliner, he's a legend. — Lee Brice

I love the healthy exchange of information. — Brice Marden

For ten thousand dollars, I'd endorse an opium pipe. — Fanny Brice

Any woman who can't say a four-letter word sometimes is deceitful. — Fanny Brice

No law against waiting," I said, "people do it all the time." For once, I didn't say too much, I didn't say too little, I said just what I said and then walked. — Fanny Brice

You think beautiful girls are going to stay in style forever? I should say not! Any minute now they're going to be out! Finished! Then it'll be my turn! — Fanny Brice

Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a while that it was going to be the major movement. But people always drift back to realism. I guess there is a certain security in that. — Brice Marden

I'm much more concerned about what artists think. But as you get older you tend to get much more isolated; you're not out in the bar, having long drunken arguments on the benefits of your work vs. someone else's. It's hard to know how people are looking at it, and you don't get much feedback. The written critical stuff seems to be the feedback, but that's hard to interpret. — Brice Marden

Remember that an artist's life is an intense search for truth. This search takes many forms. Everyone of these forms demands its own disciplines. I learned and adapted to my search. I expect nothing from you. Question the truth of anything you confront. How does it apply to yourself and the trail you are pursuing? — Brice Marden

The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do them good, but instead leave all to chance. — Brice Marden

Anyone who can't say blank is deceitful. — Fanny Brice

I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man. — Fanny Brice

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? — Fanny Brice

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Lady Brice's next words were lost because, without any warning, Grandma flung the door open.

"You really need to ask permission first," a guard warned her in a hushed tone.

She kept walking toward me. "Well, my girl, it's time for me to head out."

"So soon?" I asked, embracing her.

"I can never stay too long. Your mother is recovering from a heart attack, and she still has the audacity to order me around. I know she's the queen," she conceded, raising her hands in the air in surrender, "but I'm her mother, and that trumps queen any day."

I laughed. "I'll remember that for down the road."

"You do that," she said, rubbing my cheek. "And if you don't mind, get yourself a husband as soon as you can. I'm not getting any younger, and I'd like to see at least one great-grandchild before I'm dead." She stared at my stomach and shook her finger. "Don't let me down."

"Ooooookay, Grandma. — Kiera Cass

I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director. — Arne Glimcher

I think abstraction is a very rich area. And it is upsetting that people seem to have some fear of it. I'm constantly making these statements about how you should just look at it and react to it on your own; just relax and let go. — Brice Marden

When you're not smoking anymore, you don't have to carry around a pack of cigarettes, a lighter - all this paraphernalia. So you're liberated in a certain sense. It's the same with drinking. — Brice Marden

I'm a professional artist, that's how I make my living. So I watch the market. There is, it seems to me, a lot of pure financial speculation, and I don't think that's terribly healthy. Though as long as the money is getting back to the artist, I think that's good. I'm very happy younger artists can make money faster than we could. And we were making it faster than a generation before us. — Brice Marden

I remember getting out of grad school and coming to New York and not wanting to get a teaching job because I wanted to work on my own, to develop my own ideas. There isn't that time now. Artists are exhibiting while they are still in grad school. There isn't that safety cushion. — Brice Marden

Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show. — Fanny Brice

Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing. — Brice Marden

I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter's hat on. — Brice Marden

A work of art is a renewable source of energy. — Brice Marden

One thing's for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl (1968), I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice. — Barbra Streisand

When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you have such vitality to do things, big things, because love is goosing you all the time. — Fanny Brice

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown. — Fanny Brice

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know. — Brice Marden

When I get to go play in my hometown, it's almost one of the toughest times because I got so many people to cater to and then a lot of people that think they're supposed to be catered to. — Lee Brice

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. — Fanny Brice

I consider myself lucky to have had wonderful teachers. They expose you to a lot and basically teach you how to paint. I think of my career as a series of lucky incidents. — Brice Marden

Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt. — Brice Marden

I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western. — Brice Marden

I'm a bagel on a plate full of onion rolls! — Fanny Brice

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction. — Brice Marden

I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited. — Shirley Brice Heath

I had read them and congratulated myself for being black, as if I had chosen to be, because black women were feminists before there was a name for it. — Carleen Brice

Be a best friend. Tell the truth. And overuse "I love you" — Lee Brice

It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song. — Lee Brice

Western art has a certain relationship to nature. — Brice Marden

Well, you know I grew up wanting to be a Clemson Tiger and I ended up being able to play there and I went to school there. — Lee Brice

Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a portrait of it. That's a big shift. — Brice Marden

I love the idea of hitchhiking into the city. It was bizarre. — Brice Marden

When you're using a long brush, you have your arm at full length. Basically, it exaggerates the movement of your body. But I always start far away and end up really close. — Brice Marden

One of these days, you keep asking, Brice, and I might scare you to death and say yes. I'd turn into a clingy, nagging witch and drive you nuts — Christine Feehan

I'm a bad woman, but I'm damn good company. — Fanny Brice

Gabriel? Are you implying Gabriel had something to with Thompson's death?" Francesca sounded somewhere between outraged and amused. "You can't be serious, Brice."
"He crushed his hand, Francesca. Your Gabriel did that. Crushed his fist with one hand. I watched him do it and he wasn't even straining. I never even saw him come into the room. He was just there. There's something not quite right about him. His eyes. They aren't human. He's not human."
Francesca stared at him wide-eyed. "Not human? As in what? A phantom? A ghost that flies through the air? A gorilla? What? Maybe he lifts weights. Maybe he's strong because he lifts weights and his adrenaline was pumping. What are you saying? — Christine Feehan

I don't remember any dream. All I remember is waking up and feeling that there had been a change while I was sleeping. — Brice Marden

I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done. — Brice Marden

These days people believe they can go into art and make a living. We didn't have that. The abstract expressionists were older, by the time they even got a show. Now people come right out of school and sell. — Brice Marden

Every time I open the paper, there's some symphony orchestra collapsing somewhere in the United States. What the hell is going on? And then you find out that the board members try to run these things as businesses. — Brice Marden

When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances. — Lee Brice

We are not really surprised that God has redeemed us. Somewhere
deep inside, in the secret chambers of our hearts, we harbor the notion that God owes us His mercy. Heaven would not be quite the same if we were excluded from it. We know that we are sinners, but we are surely not as bad as we could be. There are enough redeeming features to our personalities that if God is really just, He will include us in salvation. What amazes us is justice, not Brice. — R.C. Sproul

Be a best friend. Tell the truth. Overuse 'I love you'. — Lee Brice

The truth is, I think country music ... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the way a lot of country boys and girls are, hopefully there's just a lot of respect. — Lee Brice

You can't say I'm going to become a painter in the same way you say I'm going to become a dentist. Or maybe you can nowadays. But it's an endeavor. — Brice Marden

I smoke pot when I work. I take a couple of tokes before I start. It just loosens you up. — Brice Marden

I come out before an audience and maybe my house burned down an hour ago, maybe my husband stayed out all night, but I stand there ... I got them with me, right there in my hand and comfortable. That's my job, to make them comfortable, because if they wanted to be nervous they could have stayed home and added up their bills. — Fanny Brice

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself. — Fanny Brice

The single most important condition for literacy learning is the presence of mentors who are joyfully literate people. — Shirley Brice Heath

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience. — Fanny Brice

In this kind of super-capitalistic society, everything is turned into money. And one of the great things about art is it isn't worth anything. It's absolutely free. It's going to get made no matter what. — Brice Marden

Love is like a card trick. After you know how it works, it's no fun any more. — Fanny Brice

Without love it is like having a good song without an audience. — Fanny Brice

I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked. — Fanny Brice

The two climbers looked at each other, a glance that bored all the way down to Medvetz's DNA - not desperate or pleading or frightened but resolved, almost at peace. Here were two men, united in their obsessive enterprise, their trajectories intersecting for just an instant, but an instant that contained some fundamental understanding: the long journey full of failures and setbacks, injuries and disfigurement and pain, propelled by a commitment beyond reason. Here were two men in this inhospitable place, the wind raking across the ridge, the shadows lengthening - one departing his life, the other walking back into it.
"God bless you," Medvetz murmured. "Good-bye."
And then he faced down the mountain and resumed lumbering along the route, toward Brice and Brett Merrell and Mogens Jensen and all the others waiting for him in the world below. — Nick Heil

If you gotta label me, label me proud. — Lee Brice

He was a hard man, but what else would he be? He had stood in the shield wall, he had watched the Danes come to the attack, and he had lived. He was no youngster. — Bernard Cornwell

I don't dance, But here I am
Spinning you around and around in circles
It Ain't my style, but I don't care
I'd do anything with you anywhere
Yes, you got me in the palm of your hand
Cause, I don't dance. — Lee Brice

Esther Williams? Wet, she's a star. Dry, she ain't. — Fanny Brice

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea. — Lee Brice

Even officers who don't approve of your lifestyle choices would still take you as backup over Kirkland, or most anyone else. They'd say how you're bad for shaking up with vampires and wereleopards, but in a firefight they'd take your vampire-loving, furry-fucking ass over most anyone else's. — Laurell K. Hamilton

A painting, you know, it's all dirty material. But it's about transformation. Taking that earth, that heavy earthen kind of thing, turning it into air and light. — Brice Marden

The first rule in questioning any witness is: Never ask a question if you are not sure what the answer will be. - Brice Mack — Frank De Felitta