Quotes on People

I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them ... As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.

Owners never paid my salary. I always recognized that it was the people in the seats who did. I always wanted to give my best.

Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.

Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamlet, you would be regarded as a Philistine. But you could walk into the same room and say, 'I don't know what a proton is,' and people would just laugh and say, 'Why should you know?'

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

I've always had great satisfaction out of writing the plays. I've not always had great satisfaction out of seeing them produced-although often I've had satisfaction there. When things go well in production, on opening there's no nicer feeling in the world-what could be nicer than watching an audience respond? You can't that from a book. It's a fine feeling to walk into the theater and see living people respond to something you've done.

The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.

We figured the audience would want good stories, great art, wonderful characters, people you could fall in love with that we would immediately put through hell.

Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."

Anytime you get an idea, you need people to help you put it together. That is the beginning of an institution. When you create an institution, levels of authority and boundaries need to be established. If everybody owns it, nobody owns it. If everybody is responsible for it, nobody will be responsible.

There's so many people going through so many, like, uncomfortable situations. For me to be - I mean, obviously being nervous is natural - but for me to think that winning a tennis match or losing a tennis match is the end of the world, I think just kind of shows what kind of privilege I have.

Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.

People are surprised by the poverty and think that I wasn't cared for. But that wasn't the case - I was deeply loved.

Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?

He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.

Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are - you are more than what it says on your passport.

Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.