Yuskavage Lisa Quotes & Sayings

A good film is always nourishing. It's not about it being hopeful or bleak; it's about how it touches you, how it moves or stirs you. — Lisa Yuskavage

I remember seeing a photograph of myself en pointe with my hand over my head and the other hand turned in under my breast curtseying. I took dance lessons at Miss Debbie's Dance Studio, and she put this picture of me in the storefront window. I was so unbelievably humiliated by the sight of myself. — Lisa Yuskavage

Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed. Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, .. I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU. — Celso Amorim

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

Somewhere around the turn of the century, it stopped being hip to say you never watched TV. Adults are much more likely to find something to engage them on television than they are at the local multiplex. Edges are being cut on television all the time, but at the movies only now and then. — Tom Shales

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities. — Lisa Yuskavage

I hate the taste of alcohol. When I'm drinking, I'm drinking Red Bull. — Paris Hilton

What I gotta do? Cats don't even have a clue Can't stand to see Me kick a flow so unbelievably And never gave a hand Askin' 'bout the backup plan Now that it's true Forever tellin' me that you always knew — Eamon

Movies serve many purposes, and I've visited many of those genres, from the most light, frivolous comedy that is just trying to make you laugh, to movies that explore the most complicated side of the human soul. As an actor, I play all of those things, and I still like it. — Antonio Banderas

In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink. — George Orwell

There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action. — Lisa Yuskavage

I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The work was alien to me. I didn't know how to paint in a way that would get me out of this funk. — Lisa Yuskavage

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

the glue that seems to hold mankind in some kind of lasting stasis is everyone's desire to be useful. — John D. MacDonald

Sometimes audiences love you because they get to boo you. — Lisa Yuskavage

I'm not trying to be a finger-wagger at society. I sort of start with myself. — Lisa Yuskavage

I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of view. So instead of pointing the finger outward and passing judgment, instead, you start with yourself as your own worst enemy. — Lisa Yuskavage

I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions." — Lisa Yuskavage

You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite. — Lisa Yuskavage

You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something of the inner workings of the way you experience life. — Lisa Yuskavage

I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that index ... It was a version of surfing the internet before the internet. I was surfing the New York Public Library. It was back when you had to fill out a form and put it in a chute. — Lisa Yuskavage

If you're from Oakland, and you're not a Raiders fan, then you're not from Oakland. — Zendaya

One hit, one moan of fractured air, one solid impact and the man went down. — L.G. Kelso

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

I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people. — Lisa Yuskavage

The artist injects the spirit of life into a culture. — L. Ron Hubbard

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