Top 100 Guggenheim Quotes
#1. I am willing to remain and play the man's game if there are not enough boats for more than the women and children. Tell my wife I played the game straight out and to the end. No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim is a coward.
Benjamin Guggenheim
#3. I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open.
Delphine Arnault
#4. I really did go back to Dresden with Guggenheim money (God love it) in 1967. It looked a lot like Dayton, Ohio, more open spaces than Dayton has.
Kurt Vonnegut
#5. I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.
David Chipperfield
#6. Some photographers could vomit on a piece of paper and call it art, you know ... Hang it in the Guggenheim, or whatever. Sell a print for two hundred pounds? But I can't do that. I just
Maybe I have too much respect for walls ... or something.
Pansy Schneider-Horst
#7. I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing about this rang commercial money shot. In a situation like this there's only one thing to do: forget about pleasing editors, please yourself.
Robert Polidori
#8. I am excited to be part of the dynamic Guggenheim family of companies.
Ross Levinsohn
#10. I don't care about the Guggenheim. The Guggenheim isn't involved in anything that I am interested in. I don't care about motorcycles and Armani suits.
Chuck Close
#11. Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this gallery and began showing some things that caused a little talk, amongst a lot of other things.
Lee Krasner
#12. Sometimes Peggy herself would sell tickets to her museum, and if tourists asked her if Mrs. Guggenheim was still alive, she'd assure them she wasn't.
Edmund White
#13. I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes.
Judy Dater
#14. Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim.
Paul Goldberger
#15. Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg are fantastic producers and showrunners, and they lead a very, very positive, fun, creative environment to work in and to work with.
Geoff Johns
#16. Greg Berlanti, David Nutter, Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim are the people I wanted to work with. They're smart, they're funny, they're cool, they're edgy.
Katie Cassidy
#17. One of the things I do well - I think, anyway - is combining different tones.
Marc Guggenheim
#18. Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction.
Marc Guggenheim
#20. When I write a film, the film gets handed off to a producer and a director and I go my merry way. With television, I am expected and contracted to stick around and actually produce what I've written.
Marc Guggenheim
#21. In DC Comics, Blue Devil is a superhero who came out of a movie.
Marc Guggenheim
#22. The nice thing about 'Arrow' is we never say never on the show. Hopefully the show will have a nice long life, and all manner of things can potentially happen.
Marc Guggenheim
#23. In part, it's so difficult to come up with something original, to come up with a character nowadays. If you created a globetrotting adventurer, he'd be compared to Indiana Jones. If you created a super spy, he'd be compared to James Bond.
Marc Guggenheim
#24. I'm a very big believer that the reason you've seen this huge surge in superheroes both on television and in film is ... part of it of course is zeitgeist. There's no denying that there's a huge appetite on the part of the audience in both TV and film for these kind of adventures.
Marc Guggenheim
#25. It's always really hard to kill off someone who you just really enjoy working with, writing for, and seeing on the screen.
Marc Guggenheim
#26. Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner.
Marc Guggenheim
#27. All of the stuff I can't afford to do on a TV budget, I just put into the comic book because you're really only limited in a comic by your artist's imagination.
Marc Guggenheim
#28. To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing.
Peggy Guggenheim
#29. I remember the dark days when, thanks to 1966's 'Batman' with Adam West, comics were considered the ugly stepchild of popular culture.
Marc Guggenheim
#30. We're huge fans of 'Game of Thrones' for example, 'Orphan Black.' And even though those shows don't necessarily correlate directly with 'Arrow,' I'm a very big believer that writers are the product of their inspirations.
Marc Guggenheim
#31. He who cannot revenge himself is weak. He who will not is comtemptible.
Marc Guggenheim
#32. As a fan, I want all of the Marvel TV projects to be successful. I am a comic book fan.
Marc Guggenheim
#34. Every season, we spend what really should be our hiatus, and what really should be me relaxing on a beach, planning out the whole season.
Marc Guggenheim
#35. The one thing that's always very safe to say with 'Arrow' is never make assumptions.
Marc Guggenheim
#36. As always, things happen sooner rather than later on 'Arrow.'
Marc Guggenheim
#37. [When asked how many husbands she had had:] My own, or other people's?
Peggy Guggenheim
#38. To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously,
Solomon R. Guggenheim
#39. I actually feel like comic book movies need to be better than your average movie.
Marc Guggenheim
#40. The similarity between Iron Man and Green Lantern is, unlike Superman or any of the X-Men or Spider-Man, anyone can be Green Lantern or Iron Man. All you need is the ring or the suit.
Marc Guggenheim
#41. I don't collect anymore. Everything is so terribly expensive. I don't see anything I like anyhow.
Peggy Guggenheim
#42. I do believe that even if you're the most clever person around and you figure out the 'whodunit' and you're not surprised - that shouldn't prevent you from enjoying the story.
Marc Guggenheim
#43. I have made more documentaries in my time than I think I care to remember, though I am immensely proud of all my work.
Charles Guggenheim
#44. There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.
Charles Guggenheim
#45. With 'The Flash' in existence, there's no real compelling reason for us to do superpowers on 'Arrow.'
Marc Guggenheim
#46. Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques.
Charles Guggenheim
#47. I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach.
Marc Guggenheim
#48. I took advice from none but the best. I listened, how I listened! That's how I finally became my own expert.
Peggy Guggenheim
#49. As always, we start off with asking, 'What's a good episode?' We don't think about timing, and we don't think about logistics. We just think about what would be good.
Marc Guggenheim
#50. On 'Arrow,' we have Ray Palmer and Roy Harper, and if you call Roy 'Ray' and Ray 'Roy,' you have to put money into the jar.
Marc Guggenheim
#51. All day long I add up columns of figures and make everything balanced. I come home. I sit down. I look at a Kandinsky and it's wonderful.
Solomon R. Guggenheim
#52. I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.
Peggy Guggenheim
#53. We've enjoyed laying the foundation for 'The Flash' series.
Marc Guggenheim
#54. With comics, there's no budget. There's a budget in terms of you have to pay an artist and a colorist and all that, but you can do anything you want to do.
Marc Guggenheim
#55. I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. Women's lib? I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.
Peggy Guggenheim
#56. The term 'Consulting Producer' is extraordinarily nebulous in TV, and it really means something different depending on the show and the specific circumstances negotiated.
Marc Guggenheim
#57. I happen to like dark, and I like the fact that 'Arrow' is a pretty dark show, particularly for a network show.
Marc Guggenheim
#58. I think it's very hard to talk about these characters in a closed-ended, sort of non-sequel way, especially characters like The Flash and Green Lantern, which have such rich, long histories.
Marc Guggenheim
#59. One of things we say on 'Arrow' is, 'The only constant is evolution.'
Marc Guggenheim
#61. I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project.
Peggy Guggenheim
#62. I'm not like Jonathan Hickman, who's able to sort of plot out three years of a book ahead of time. I'm much more of a guy who plots out an arc or two at a time.
Marc Guggenheim
#63. You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another.
Marc Guggenheim
#64. My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.
Peggy Guggenheim
#65. Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.
Marc Guggenheim
#66. There's a lot of downtime where you're filling your car up with gas, you're driving to work, you're stuck in traffic - it's Los Angeles, and so much of it is a car lifestyle.
Marc Guggenheim
#67. The goal, first and foremost, is to tell a satisfying - entertaining - story.
Marc Guggenheim
#68. Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.
Charles Guggenheim
#69. In the writers' room, when we talk about each episode, we first talk about the character journey of the episode.
Marc Guggenheim
#70. There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.
Charles Guggenheim
#71. I think 'Green Lantern' has the potential to be a very highly regarded superhero movie. We're approaching it with such respect and such care.
Marc Guggenheim
#72. It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even to visit it means that you fall in love with the city itself. There is nothing left over in your heart for anyone else.
Peggy Guggenheim
#73. I think he was explicit that it was a slave labor situation, but I was not alarmed at that point, because there were so many tragedies involved in that war. That was the first time I had any indication that something was sort of strange.
Charles Guggenheim
#74. We're not militant, but there are certain things that are absolutely secret. There was a pilot printed on red paper, and I read everything on my iPad and have a scanner on my desk for these purposes. I scanned in the script, and red paper script scans in perfectly fine.
Marc Guggenheim
#75. We have several projects in the pipeline, but one of the rules we set for ourselves is we don't want to solicit or announce any projects that aren't ready for publication. I'm personally really tired of reading about titles that never come out.
Marc Guggenheim
#76. Collider is a company that I formed with a movie producer, Alisa Tager, and we just wanted to create a place where writers could come and develop their ideas without a regard to limitations of form.
Marc Guggenheim
#77. At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.
Marc Guggenheim
#78. If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal.
Peggy Guggenheim
#79. The first half of my TV career, I didn't do any genre at all.
Marc Guggenheim
#81. Obviously, I love superheroes; I love comic book characters, but I ... I guess I've had a lifelong affection for comics, and while I love the characters so much, I also love the medium.
Marc Guggenheim
#82. 'The Sixth Sense' was a very enjoyable, successful movie despite the fact that there were plenty of people, including myself, who saw the ending coming.
Marc Guggenheim
#84. I'm a huge fan of 'The Six Million Dollar Man' and I love the episodes where they would cross over with 'The Bionic Woman.'
Marc Guggenheim
#85. Doc Savage, Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon ... these were the kinds of characters I was thinking about as I was developing Jonas Quantum because there aren't that many brand new characters being introduced anymore.
Marc Guggenheim
#86. [On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it nearly breaks one's heart.
Peggy Guggenheim
#87. If Hollywood is going to keep going, the writers need to be creatively fulfilled by creating their own things. We need to generate new ideas, so we're not always cannibalizing old ones.
Marc Guggenheim
#88. I came up professionally as a lawyer, and when you're a lawyer, writing a 50-page brief in one night is just another day at the office. You learn to make choices really quickly, and you learn how to get thoughts down very quickly.
Marc Guggenheim
#89. That's one of the perks of my job, is getting to see what the Internet does.
Marc Guggenheim
#90. One of the great things about the 'Arrow' crew is that no one is settling for what they did yesterday. They're always thinking about what they can do tomorrow.
Marc Guggenheim
#91. The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say that you have changed.
Bill Guggenheim, Judy Guggenheim
#92. It's funny: I like being surprised as a reader, so it's difficult for me to spoil my own stuff.
Marc Guggenheim
#93. We've dressed up in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen.
Benjamin Guggenheim
#94. What I took away from my 'Flashforward' experience is that when you're doing a serialized mythology show, you put your foot on the gas, and you do not take it off.
Marc Guggenheim
#95. Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.
Peggy Guggenheim
#96. Everything is always on the table. I think it's one of the things that's made 'Arrow' special. But we also all collectively feel like 'The Flash' needs to stand on its own two feet, now that it's gotten its launch from 'Arrow.'
Marc Guggenheim
#97. Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day.
Peggy Guggenheim
#98. Try to imagine a character like Batman whose whole life has been about fighting crime, whose whole existence and identity is his war against criminals, and he wakes up one morning to discover there are no criminals. What happens to him?
Marc Guggenheim
#99. I think comic books have come an incredibly far way, and I want to make sure we don't take a step back. I certainly don't want my name on a movie that would take it back.
Marc Guggenheim
#100. I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art.
Peggy Guggenheim
