#ten

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray! ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#another #color #course #doing #eliminated

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#constructed #deeply #discover #displaced #facts

I find that the crazy narcissists, the selfish loons are often the most fun to be around, weirdly. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#crazy #find #fun #i #most

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. ↗

— Stephen King

#norms #politeness #reading #society #writing

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#acting #definitely #i #like #lots

It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#attention #big #disingenuous #flattering #goal

This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#business #feels #fit #hole #i

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me. ↗

— Jason Giambi

#biggest thing #calmness #come #gotten #i

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#could #had #i #nothing #record

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#everybody #forward #healthy #i #i think