Quotes About Oeuvre

#1. Non-knowing is not a form of ignorance but a difficult transcendence of knowledge. This is the price that must be paid for an oeuvre to be, at all times, a sort of pure beginning, which makes its creation an exercise in freedom.

Jean Lescure

#2. My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.

John Scott

#3. Close-Up is a very particular film in my oeuvre. It's a film that was made in a very particular way; mainly because I didn't really have the time to think about how to go about making the film.

Abbas Kiarostami

#4. Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don't think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.

William Golding

#5. I suppose that as you grow older some sense of an accumulating oeuvre is unavoidable.

Michael Longley

#6. To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.

Hans Arp

#7. You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre ... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.

Nadia Giosia

#8. of Place and the rest of her Hollywood oeuvre. Ferring had won two Emmys for Lakeview, the Jeffersons look-alike series she'd starred in. She'd been photographed at one White House gala with President Clinton and another

Sara Paretsky

#9. In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it, you may take some beautiful pictures, but not a photographic oeuvre.

Brassai

#10. We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution of culture makes real an oeuvre which has lain in obscurity.

Igor Markevitch

#11. At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.

Sandra Bernhard

#12. A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house.

Anita Shreve

#13. Let the mind contemplate, let the pen scribble, the oeuvre would be eccentric, peculiar to a reader's eye.

Shilpa Sandesh

#14. Life is like a giant hors d'oeuvre tray in that it is to be savored.

Jack Fitzgerald

#15. You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious.

Christopher Moore

#16. Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.

Rider Strong

#17. Ray Bradbury's entire oeuvre exemplifies the crumbling of SCIENCE FICTION into the open interplay of science fiction, fantasy and horror.

Hal Duncan

#18. I got cheered greatly, not because I did well, but because the main point in my part was to look foolish, and I feel that I did that to perfection.

Jon Lellenberg

#19. I am just a plain, common man.

Nicholas II Of Russia

#20. It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.

Susan Sontag

#21. Jamie felt a strong desire to go across and see what the open books were, to go to the shelves and run his knuckles gently over the leather and wood and buckrum of the bindings until a book should speak to him and come willingly into his hand.

Diana Gabaldon

#22. I have not encouraged talk about man's holy privacy, although I do respect and defend man's right to have it.

Mie Hansson

#23. The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island.

Garry Hynes

#24. There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man." ~ 'The Black Cat.

Edgar Allan Poe

#25. I will not start an initiative until I've spent my own money. Because if I spend my own money, people who want to get on board afterwards know that I am serious about it.

Will.i.am

#26. 'Sons of Anarchy' has the perfect combination of character and action.

Christopher Golden