#notion

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#among #does #essence #long #matter

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#because #change #conservative #crimes #culture

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#am #been #hateful #i #i am

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#cracking #going #hyper #i #idea

For some reason, it popped into my head the notion that a lot of the Next Generation cast in the long run of that show managed to step behind the camera. ↗

— Michael Shanks

#camera #cast #generation #head #into

I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way. ↗

— Omar Sharif

#appeal #attracted #being #certainly #having

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#anything #delusional #life #life is too short #notions

I want to do everything. I want to be the president, I want to learn Tae Kwan Do, I want to climb mountains. I'm always bugged by the notion that I can't do everything. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#bugged #climb #everything #i #learn

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. ↗

— Ben Stein

#notions #ordinary #ordinary people #out #people

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#get #go #going #hate #i