I Am Interested Quotes

#1. I study history because I am interested in the future.

Peter Rachleff

#2. I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.

Roberto Matta

#3. I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

Andy Goldsworthy

#4. I'm not interested in living in a world where my race is not a part of who I am. I am interested in living in a world where our races, no matter what they are, don't define our trajectory in life.

Kerry Washington

#5. Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions.

Mircea Eliade

#6. As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.

Brandon Boyd

#7. I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.

Clemence Poesy

#8. I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we don't always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel.

Amy Bloom

#9. Though I'm not religious, I am interested in religion. I read a lot of history and I think it came out of that. I just think I couldn't understand certain eras of history without knowing what these people believed in.

Hal Hartley

#10. I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

Robert Henri

#11. I don't really think I am interested in the macabre, but I am curious about death. That's normal ... The only certainty in life is that we're all going to die. It would be unnatural not to think about death once in a while.

Andres Serrano

#12. What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

Annie Leibovitz

#13. I am interested in outsiders. I suppose I have always felt like one myself.

Rebecca Pidgeon

#14. I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

N. Scott Momaday

#15. It is by studium that I am interested in so many photographs, whether I receive them as political testimony or enjoy them as good historical scenes: for it is culturally (this connotation is present in studium) that I participate in the figures, the faces, the gestures, the settings, the actions.

Roland Barthes

#16. What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale.

Fennel Hudson

#17. I can categorically say I will not be putting my hat in the ring. It's not something I have ever coveted and it's not a position I am interested in taking up at this point in time. I am loyal to Newcastle and they have been fabulous to me. I feel that is where my responsibility lies.

Rob Andrew

#18. I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

Jamaica Kincaid

#19. I have never been interested in making a photograph that describes what the world I live in looks like, but I am interested in what pictures (of the world) look like.

Uta Barth

#20. I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.

Christian Louboutin

#21. I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.

Antoni Tapies

#22. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.

Diana Nyad

#23. I am interested in challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#24. I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.

Roland Barthes

#25. I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#26. I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

Olivier Theyskens

#27. I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.

Ayn Rand

#28. I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected.

Lynn Nottage

#29. While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection

Amartya Sen

#30. I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

Marcel Duchamp

#31. Opinions are like nipples, everybody has one. Some have firm points, others are barely discernible through layers, and some are displayed at every opportunity regardless of whether the audience has stated "I am interested in your nipples" or not.

David Thorne

#32. It is the surface I am interested in. Because the surface is the inside.

Lisette Model

#33. The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

Frank McCourt

#34. I am not interested in whether you've stood with the great. I am interested in whether you've sat broken.

Unknown

#35. I am interested in the subject which is Russia.

Tatyana Tolstaya

#36. Because I am interested in the growth and development of early hominids, I play with my kids, you know, looking at their teeth or measuring their heads, which they like also, because it's kind of fun.

Zeresenay Alemseged

#37. Of course, my interests and my focus change and become more diverse, more worldly. At the same time, I am interested in the simple basics, which is I love to dance and I love to make people dance.

Madonna Ciccone

#38. I am interested in the paradox between identity and uniformity, in the power and vulnerability of each individual and each group. It is in this paradox that I try to visualize by concentrating on poses, attitudes, gestures, and gazes.

Rineke Dijkstra

#39. As an artist, I am interested in telling stories that haven't been told before, stories that are going to affect people, and also stories that shine light on areas of history that haven't had light shined on them before.

Naomie Harris

#40. I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.

Charles Kettering

#41. My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being on your own in the world in a way you're not quite ready for, ever.

Mary Gordon

#42. I am not interested in communicating something to you, I am interested in communion. Communication means my mind talking to your mind. Communion means I am not a mind, you are not a mind - just your heart melting into my heart, no words.

Rajneesh

#43. I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested
intrigued even
by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.

Kate Morton

#44. I am interested in giving the reader true vertigo. I look to deteriorating consciousness as our inevitable condition and I am trying to make it work the same way I did with my juvenile mind - that is, to imagine how we are suffering. To record it being actual and then virtual.

Tony Burgess

#45. Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#46. It was at Juilliard that I realized that being a singer encompasses so many things that I am interested in. Literature, languages, physics, history, art. You really get to explore so many things.

Susanna Phillips

#47. I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.

Ayn Rand

#48. I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life.

Eva Hesse

#49. I suppose it's fair to say that I am interested in the invention of self or selves. We're all born into certain circumstances with particular physical traits, unique developmental experiences, geographical and historical contexts.

Sarah Jones

#50. I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

Louise Bourgeois

#51. I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love for and fascination with pictures.

Uta Barth

#52. I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.

Wolfgang Tillmans

#53. I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.

Prince Philip

#54. I'm not interested in current events per se, but I am interested in how certain aspects of social or public life that might seem ultra-contemporary actually take their place in a long American continuum.

Jonathan Dee

#55. I am interested in how cells know what they are and how they should behave in their proper place in the body.

Tim Hunt

#56. I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life - how people live. I am most interested in individuals and how they respond to challenges or to difficulties or just to each other. I am curious about people.

Claire Denis

#57. On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.

Bill Budge

#58. I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see.

Burt Lancaster

#59. My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well.

Wolf Blitzer

#60. I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#61. Neither my husband nor I am interested in mincing words. If I break something, for example, I have to announce it. I'm a compulsive confessor.

Jennifer Connelly

#62. I am interested in those truths that are yet unknown, it is only so that they might in time, be made known- or to put it more plainly, so that in time I might come to know them." P 502

Eleanor Catton

#63. Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.

Campbell Scott

#64. I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.

Tadao Ando

#65. I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.

Natasha Trethewey

#66. 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

#67. I am interested in beauty when it has something special and mysterious.

Riccardo Tisci

#68. I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept their lot, as that is what many people in the world are doing. They do their best in ghastly conditions.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#69. When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.

Yoshio Taniguchi

#70. I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

G.H. Hardy

#71. I am interested in recent scholarly work examining the emergence of women's studies and ethnic studies departments and the development of the neoliberal university.

Dean Spade

#72. I am interested in the blueness of the cheese.

Graham Greene

#73. I am interested in doing something that cannot be explained.

Harold Town

#74. If I'm being honest, I think I'd be good at television; I just don't know if I am interested, because you are kind of geographically responsible to a location, and frankly I don't know if I retired from tennis so that I could sit around tennis tournaments 12 hours a day.

Andy Roddick

#75. It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.

Soren Kierkegaard

#76. I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class ... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

Nick McDonell

#77. I suppose I am interested in women plus anonymity plus disappearance.

Rachel Kushner

#78. Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

Anne Tyler

#79. I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

Andy Rooney

#80. If you had told me when I was at high school that one day I would be working for a for-profit company, let alone running one, I would have said you were crazy. But I am interested in how you can empower individuals to make change, and Causes is doing just that.

Joe Green

#81. I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.

Christopher Guest

#82. I believe that some of my best images have [the] ambiguity which is an essence of life. In this sense I am not interested in trying desperately to make Art but I am interested in relating to the marvelous extravagance of Life.

John Gutmann

#83. In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of exclusive tenderness and passivity.

Barbara Degenevieve

#84. I am interested and deeply curious about our need for a spiritual life, a life of greater meaning, and how we come to a more ethical view of life within our communities that is more inclusive than exclusive, one that is extended even beyond our own species.

Terry Tempest Williams

#85. I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.

Rachel Kushner

#86. I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy. I am interested in being happy, not in making others think or know that I am.

C. JoyBell C.

#87. I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsession, each contributing something unique to make something greater than the sum of its parts. I don't know why, but from day one, that has interested me.

Steven Van Zandt

#88. I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.

Garry Shandling

#89. If you are only moved by color relationships, you are missing the point. I am interested in expressing the big emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom.

Mark Rothko

#90. I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of the line when writing prose poems, which brings its own pleasures.

Denise Duhamel

#91. What I am interested in is the present time.

Sophie Marceau

#92. I think that nobody gets mad at me anymore, no matter what I say, because I don't think I'm mean. I am interested in what's next.

John Waters

#93. I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.

Doris Lessing

#94. As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.

Umberto Eco

#95. I am interested in people who swim in the deep end. I want to have conversations about real things with people who have experienced real things. [I'm tired of talking about movies and gossiping about friends.]

Amy Poehler

#96. What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.

David Attenborough

#97. I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.

Nicholas Royle

#98. I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.

Jeanette Winterson

#99. I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

Ernst Haas

#100. I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.

Anthony Braxton