Yuskavage Artist Quotes & Sayings

I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who are nice and quiet. — Lisa Yuskavage

Being together, like being able to see certain stars only with your peripheral vision, isn't something you can create. It's just something that happens to you. — Polly Horvath

I think great art goes beyond the control of the artist. In some ways, art often makes itself and reveals things about that artist that maybe the artist is not fully conscious of. — Lisa Yuskavage

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship. — Lincoln Diaz-Balart

For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm. — Donnie Yen

The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means. — Jimmy Buffett

If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist. — Lisa Yuskavage

I continue to write songs that are topically related to social, political and economic issues of our time, but I also recognize that onstage, I have a lot of fun and audiences have a lot of fun, so I'm trying to package the messages in music and sounds that are fun to perform and fun to listen to. — Aloe Blacc

By the time that the war came to an end, British society was generally inclined to reject the idealistic case for imperialism (that it would extend the benefits of advanced civilization to a backward region) as quixotic, and the practical case for it (that it would be of benefit to Britain to expand her empire) as untrue. — David Fromkin

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress. — Beth Henley

A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat . — John Donne

Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It's amazing what 'sleeping on it' can do. A new day sees a new beginning. — Stephen Richards

Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush. — J. C. Watts

It's easy to attack an artist as misogynist, but that's really such a facile epithet. And if an artist is constantly worrying about how others will judge a work, it can end up being a block to investigating certain areas of human nature or certain truths about sexuality. — Lisa Yuskavage

Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy. — Marshall Field

Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life. — Martin Seligman