Top 55 Salle's Quotes
#1. One day I picked up the phone to hear a middle-aged female voice asking if there were "any green Salles" left; she wanted to match Salle's art to the color scheme of her living room furniture. It's all such a joke,
Kim Gordon
#2. [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
#3. Hold prayer in high esteem. It is the foundation of all the virtues, and the source of all grace needed to sanctify ourselves and to discharge the duties of our employment.
Jean-Baptiste De La Salle
#4. Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.
Eriq La Salle
#5. 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
#6. I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.
Eriq La Salle
#7. Love is the force, the energy that animates creativity and peace in each one of us.
Salle Merrill Redfield
#8. Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.
Jean-Baptiste De La Salle
#9. But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.
Eriq La Salle
#10. 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
#11. Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.
Eriq La Salle
#12. The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them?
Eriq La Salle
#13. Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capitalize on that. And say, OK, well fine, you have a God complex, well this person has a Satan complex. And the doctor chooses to treat him scientifically.
Eriq La Salle
#14. 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
#15. Salle. The white man and the red man struck hands and entertained each other during three days. Then, to the admiration
Mark Twain
#16. Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating.
Eriq La Salle
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ten minutes after seeing it, you're only focused on what you want to eat.
Eriq La Salle
#20. 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
#21. The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before.
David Salle
#22. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. some he hadn't. He found an old family photo album in the living room credenza. He sat at the kitchen table and
Eriq La Salle
#28. Art should offend people because art should challenge people.
Eriq La Salle
#29. 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
#30. Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.
Eriq La Salle
#31. In True Balance Sonia Choquette takes the mystery out of staying balanced, both physically and spiritually. She offers a clear explanation of our chakras and how they influence our daily lives.
Salle Merrill Redfield
#32. I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.
Eriq La Salle
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you.
David Salle
#36. 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
#37. Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you've never had it so good.
David Salle
#39. I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as few people as possible just to make your money back.
Eriq La Salle
#40. It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it.
Eriq La Salle
#41. People tend to remember and mentally classify work according to how it looks, sometimes oblivious to the underlying intent.
David Salle
#42. I'm happiest when I feel that several almost opposing sensations are present at the same time.
David Salle
#43. The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.
Eriq La Salle
#44. Soon I am seeing the blue-and-yellow flags that line the campus streets, and it makes me feel happy and sad at the same time to be back at La Salle
almost like looking at old pictures of people who have either died or with whom you have lost contact.
Matthew Quick
#45. But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.
Eriq La Salle
#46. 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
#47. You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.
Eriq La Salle
#48. My focus was always toward imagery of some sort.
David Salle
#49. Where I once found it safer to stay in the background ... I've stepped from the shadows into the spotlight.
Salle Merrill Redfield
#50. They said it had been there before D'Iberville, before La Salle, before the Indians, and before even the wholesome beasts and birds of the woods.
H.P. Lovecraft
#51. 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
#52. So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.
Eriq La Salle
#53. Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.
Jean-Baptiste De La Salle
#54. So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company.
Eriq La Salle
#55. Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water
Jean-Baptiste De La Salle
