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There are, of course, always painters whom I admire and find fascinating. I've often thought, 'Goodness, if I could paint like the Danish Golden Age painters, the early 19th century painters, the way they could paint a landscape - absolutely beautifu...

Margrethe II of Denmark

When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of Western art lay before them as a stylistic smorgasbord. Chinese artists could reinterpret it out of admiration or try...

Arne Glimcher

When we hear some beautiful piece of Mozart or admire a wonderful building, we suddenly become present in ourselves. That's unusual nowadays because dishevelment and distraction have become an art form.

John O'Donohue

I admire 'Adventure Time' for being a piece of art in the way that I think art should be. If you want to see it is poetry, you can, and if you don't, you can watch a fun cartoon.

Rebecca Sugar

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

Tony Kushner

There may be no English word as bent and broken by casual misuse, or drained of blood by idealizing admirers and apologists, or grossly caricatured by huckstering detractors, as church.

After Crucifixion: The Promise of Theology

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

You can make EXCUSES and earn SYMPATHY, OR You can make MONEY and earn ADMIRATION. The choice is always yours...

From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom

It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children have so little claim on hell, that if they should see it they would admire it.

Ninety-Three

Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss?

The Lost Colony

A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.

Letters from a Stoic

But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.

In Search of King Solomon's Mines

Friends are won through personal contact, but admirers are won through their contact with our works

The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock

Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.

The Shadow of the Wind

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

People admire my confidence, but they never see me when I'm alone. That's when I'm the most raw because I'm not trying to sell myself to anybody.

Teenage Idol

You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it.

The Princess Bride

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.

Prayer for Beginners

It is. I’m your boyfriend now, which means there’s no room for your hipster admirer. He’ll just have to lick his wounds while we lick other things.

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