Person Quotes

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.

I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.

Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give.

I'm a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing. I have a heart and a soul and I want to touch people and give.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.