David Salle Quotes

#1. [David] Salle's earlier work had been marked by a kind of spaciousness, sometimes an emptiness, such as surrealist works are prone to. But here everything was condensed, impacted, mired. The paintings were like an ugly mood.

Janet Malcolm

#2. I started when I was nine. Really, everything I know about color theory, composition, drawing, and painting, I learned when I was a kid.

David Salle

#3. To know how to structure the joke perfectly so that the narrative information is given in the right tempo, in just the right dose - it sometimes takes quite a lot of work. It seems easy when you hear the joke.

David Salle

#4. Oh no, my brain is broken.

Russell Brand

#5. For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein?

John Wesley

#6. What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny.

David Salle

#7. Evil is to be found not within things, but in the value judgements which people bring to bear upon things. People can therefore be cured of their ills only if they are persuaded to change their value judgements,

Donald Robertson

#8. But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

William Joyce

#9. Once established, a successful style looks like an inevitability - maybe that's the definition of a successful style - but there's often the time when it looks like anything but.

David Salle

#10. You can't be another person's honesty, child, but you can be your own.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.

Karl Rove

#12. The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do. The pictures imitate life to find a way out.

David Salle

#13. Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.

David Salle

#14. The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before.

David Salle

#15. I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the exciting stuff was happening elsewhere, so I took a holiday from painting for a few years.

David Salle

#16. Spend a day talking only in rhyme.

David Salle

#17. If my work is pornography, so what? I don't have any moral compunction about pornography. Any feelings I have about it are purely stylistic ... I don't see why it should be excluded as a serious subject.

David Salle

#18. My father had wanted to be a commercial artist. He got as far as being a photographer in the army in World War II, but he was always a Sunday painter. At a certain point, he gave me his oil paints and I messed around with them, having no idea what I was doing.

David Salle

#19. I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination.

David Salle

#20. Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.

Danny Boyle

#21. The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

Sogyal Rinpoche

#22. As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.

David Salle

#23. To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.

D. James Kennedy

#24. Knowing where you have come from is important in forming an idea of where you want to go.

Alexander Stille

#25. This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent.

David Salle

#26. For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you.

David Salle

#27. Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think I wasted a lot of time not being bold enough, or still engaged in the questioning that you get into at school.

David Salle

#28. Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you've never had it so good.

David Salle

#29. There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip.

Bob Hope

#30. When we are accomplishing the good, the greatest opposition comes.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#31. there are interesting, smart, kind people just absolutely everywhere, and that when you do things you care about, you find quick kinship with people who are passionate about those same things.

Shauna Niequist

#32. People tend to remember and mentally classify work according to how it looks, sometimes oblivious to the underlying intent.

David Salle

#33. I'm happiest when I feel that several almost opposing sensations are present at the same time.

David Salle

#34. I remember making a videotape in a fancy hair salon in Beverly Hills. The soundtrack in the salon had a whole worldview behind it - I was interested in things like that.

David Salle

#35. It sounds formulaic now, but at the time, I was interested in the difference between the thing and the representation of the idea of the thing - the space between the two.

David Salle

#36. My focus was always toward imagery of some sort.

David Salle

#37. Most people play a fair game of golf - if you watch them.

Joey Lauren Adams

#38. When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.

Eric Dolphy

#39. Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able to roll up the work, and paper would just get destroyed. Once I looked at what I'd done, I realized I had made a painting, sort of by default.

David Salle