Appropriation Art Quotes

#1. While appropriation art is critical to art, it's an ambiguous art form in the world of the Supreme Court.

Lawrence Lessig

#2. I like to set realistic goals for myself, not outrageous ones.

Evan Longoria

#3. I get some letters from girls that if their mothers knew what they were writing me in these letters, they'd get their butts whipped.

Rick James

#4. Unexpected events can set you back or set you up. It's all a matter of - perspective.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#5. The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

Jodi Picoult

#6. After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

Jerry Saltz

#7. A prizefighter who gets knocked out or is badly outclassed suffers in a way he will never forget.

Floyd Patterson

#8. Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

Lord Byron

#9. Suffering is a cutting edge political design.

Bruno De Oliveira

#10. Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from a good home. The sweetest influences and associations of life are there

Ezra Taft Benson

#11. Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.

Jerry Saltz

#12. The funny thing is, I've never really hurt myself in an action movie. I've done 'Wanted,' 'X-Men,' 'Welcome To The Punch,' even 'Trance' to a certain extent has little bits of action and stuff, but I've never really hurt myself at all - not even like a sprained ankle.

James McAvoy

#13. Out here, in the cold, with the moon and the huge stars overhead and with kind, merry faces all round them, one couldn't quite believe in Underland.

C.S. Lewis

#14. I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

Halle Berry

#15. The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

Margaret Drabble

#16. Things are always less important once you're assured of having them.

Mary Gaitskill

#17. Most accomplishments in life come more easily if you approach them strategically

John C. Maxwell