Brian Sewell Quotes

#1. I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. And it isn't someone walking around with a salmon over his shoulder or embroidering the name of everyone they have slept with on the inside of a tent.

Brian Sewell

#2. The only obligation we have in any lifetime is to be true to ourselves.

Richard Bach

#3. By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.

Ben Horowitz

#4. In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children.

Amy Chua

#5. No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

Joseph Plaskett

#6. Well, ever since I was little, I knew that singing was what I wanted to do, and then I got into, you know, doing drama club and community theater.

Jordin Sparks

#7. Please note, I am not suggesting that illicit drugs are required to break down social barriers.

Thomas C. Foster

#8. Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only to other critics and their ilk.

Brian Sewell

#9. Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.

Seth Godin

#10. Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#11. You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
Your heart's an empty hole.
Your brain is full of spiders,
You've got garlic in your soul.

Dr. Seuss

#12. Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.

Brian Sewell

#13. Everything always passes, and everything is already okay. Stay in the place where you can see that, and nothing will resist you.

Martha Beck

#14. Blood is not destiny.

Paolo Bacigalupi