Sarah Thornton Quotes

#1. I have to agree with Artforum publisher Charles Guarino: "It's the place where I found the most kindred spirits - enough oddball, overeducated, anachronistic, anarchic people to make me happy." Finally,

Sarah Thornton

#2. Politics, kinship, and craft also happen to embrace some of the most important things in life: caring about your influence on the world, connecting meaningfully with others, and working hard to create something worthwhile.

Sarah Thornton

#3. I'm an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand the way I live.

Sarah Thornton

#4. In Wangechi Mutu's mother tongue, Kikuyu, there is no word for "artist." The closest term is something like "magician" or "a person who uses objects and imbues them with meaning and power,

Sarah Thornton

#5. Art is more like real estate than stocks. Some Warhols are like studio apartments in midblock buildings with northern exposures, while other Warhols are penthouse properties with 360-degree views. A share of Cisco, however, is always just a share of Cisco. Judging

Sarah Thornton

#6. I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.

Kat Graham

#7. Art is not a job for an artist, just as religion is not a job for a priest." He runs his fingers through his hair again. "Sometimes I see myself as almost like an academic. My artworks are not really products; they are papers that you write when you have finalized a strain of thought.

Sarah Thornton

#8. The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.

Dalai Lama

#9. Art needs motives that are more profound than profit if it is to maintain its difference from - and position above - other cultural forms.

Sarah Thornton

#10. There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.

Anaxagoras

#11. Art is not supposed to repeat what you already know. It is supposed to ask questions.

Sarah Thornton

#12. Their hatred is so passionate that I can't help but wonder if they're attracted to each other.

Sarah Thornton

#13. It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straights, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in all the states and through all the stages of their lives.

John Flavel

#14. Our lives are constantly changing. Different things become relevant at different times in our lives. We are motivated by our changing sensibilities. Why can that not be applied to art?

Sarah Thornton

#15. You grow. You don't want to stay the same. The thing that was great for you before isn't going to be great for you now. A woman should have many faces through her life, not just one face, not just one hairdo, not just one way. You want to keep rediscovering what's fun for you.

Sharon Stone

#16. Unlike those in other professions, artists cut the branch they are sitting on.

Sarah Thornton

#17. Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else.

Sarah Thornton

#18. Pardon me, but my father says that it is a lie that Americans have everything. You have no sheep, no goats, no trees, no oil, no vines, no wine, not even chickens. He asks, 'What kind of life is that?' He says, 'No wonder you don't sing or dance or recite poetry very often.

Robert Fulghum

#19. Just because fate finds us our perfect match doesn't mean it's always easy and we don't have to work at it. Anything worth having takes fighting for sometimes.- Victor Marius

Joyee Flynn

#20. Part of why I was attracted to the idea of owning a gun was self-defense, and part of it was that I've been fascinated by guns since I was a little kid, and I want to play with them. It seems like a lot of fun.

Jonathan Gottschall

#21. Thursday," McMurphy says again. "Looooo," yells that guy upstairs. "That's

Ken Kesey

#22. it's no longer possible to believe that White Christian America sets the tone for the country's culture as a whole.

Robert P. Jones

#23. Indeed, being an artist is not just a job but an identity dependent on a broad range of extracurricular intelligences.

Sarah Thornton

#24. Who, in 2007, would have thought that a drawing by Willem De Kooning would be a safer asset than shares in Lehman Brothers? By autumn 2008, this would clearly be the case.

Sarah Thornton

#25. THE BIG YELLOW ONE IS THE SUN!!!

Brian Regan

#26. The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

Mary Shelley