Homages Quotes

#1. Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages or satiric riffs, and are not intended to be taken too seriously as works in their own right. Otherwise I should be talking to a copyright lawyer.

Bill Watterson

#2. Sometimes the shots serve as homages to other movies and other directors, like Hitchcock.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#3. Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

Chuck Eddy

#4. I did not steal other people's work! I may have appropriated some styles, but I did not steal. My work is full ... of homages to everyone in my medium - not theft!

Nick Simmons

#5. By ignoring compliments and homages we lead the person paying those compliments to think we look down on him, when in fact we are only doubting ourselves.

Albert Camus

#6. Marcie: I know you're still wounded. Danny, you have to let it go. That is what this mind game is all about, discovering who we are.
Humans lie to themselves all the time. There should be no disgrace in being human, that is what I believe.

Andrew Neff

#7. It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity.
I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.

Albert Einstein

#8. She was an Amazon. Her whole life was spent riding at breakneck speed towards the wilder shores of love.

Lesley Blanch

#9. To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know.

George Spencer-Brown

#10. It was a symbol of what Ruskin had done for Proust, and what all books might do for their readers, namely bring back to life, from the deadness caused by habit and inattention, valuable yet neglected aspects of experience.

Alain De Botton

#11. And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation.

Tony Dungy