St. Vincent Quotes

I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.

And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.

Storytelling is the important thing.

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.

I've picked up a great appetite for pastrami on rye and a nice cream soda. It is fantastic. So I have to be careful or I'm going to just get really fat.

Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.

I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.

What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.

I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous.

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

The day before yesterday has always been a day of glamor, of gilt and glory. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe.

Some people made me out like the villain. I'm supposed to be the Bond villain, but actually I'm James Bond.

I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint.

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Love is something eternal.

My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.

There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.

Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.

The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.

The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.

I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.

Do not become the slave of your model.

I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?

And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.

Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.

As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.

I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.

To paint nature you must be in it a long time.

I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.

What a splendid thing watercolour is to express atmosphere and distance, so that the figure is surrounded by air and can breathe in it.

It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.

I also plan to release a ballads collection.

I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.

Great issues develop from small beginnings.