Icons Quotes

The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all.

My style icons were Gwen Stefani, when she was in No Doubt, and then Shirley Manson in Garbage.

My two style icons are Edie Sedgwick and Brigitte Bardot.

I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.

Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.

When you say cultural icon, I scrunch my nose.

My style icon has always been my mom. I feel like she was always sophisticated and effortless and looked really well put together without trying too hard.

Stevie Nicks has always been my fashion icon, so I wanted to blend her infamous witchy style with the 90s valley girl theme that I was so entranced by as a young girl.

Cheese steaks are the gastronomic icons of this ethnic city.

Harrison Ford is absolutely amazing. He is a Hollywood icon, and just to work with him was absolutely incredible.

David Ortiz is an icon. He is one of a kind. But we'll do our best job to replace the offensive aspect, however we can.

The idea of a visual icon that gives you a sense of information very quickly and that you can easily just say "That's what the style is."

Alexander McQueen... The fashion world has not only lost an icon but we have also lost a very special friend.

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.

What I learned from being around great icons like Calvin Klein is that the great fashion trendsetters don't change their look every season. They have a look, and they update maybe a piece per season.

We don't have T-shirts with my face, but there I can see the beginnings, especially young girls seeing me as sort of a icon in that way. And in that regard I'm more than happy to step in.

Janet Jackson is an icon, I've been honored to meet her a few times, working with her would be amazing.

Working with Cate Blanchett, on and off the screen, has always been a highlight for me. She embodies the perfect combination of consummate actor and world-class fashion icon.

That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.

I’m a false icon! The media collaborate in promoting my superficial lifestyle as somehow more valid, more worthy of attention than your real lives! - Gideon Stargrave

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."

So nice to be a fashion icon in my day.

The idea of being icons, I think it's great when you're 24. It's fantastic.

Truly saddened by the loss of one of the greatest fashion icons of all time. Oscar de la Renta will be greatly missed.

Me personally, I don't have anything against Jesus any more than I do any of the religious icons. I think they're all pretty funny.

I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can't not be what everyone says I am. But I don't feel like an icon.

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.

My style icon really for my whole life has been my mother.

I have a Madonna portrait done in the style of a Russian icon. My mother, the chef Lidia Bastianich, and I bought it together. It reminds me of her.

Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

I'm not an icon. Not even in America.

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.

I make music as good as possible, but I do reference cultural icons, because I want my music to be a time capsule of 2007.

If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.

I've never really compared myself to anyone who's a big star - I'm not trying to be a fashion icon or get famous.

I know that I have balls. I have bigger balls than a lot of the men that I meet. I'm just a ballsy motherf - ker. I'm not afraid of pushing boundaries. That's what you have to do to become an icon.

Eventually, I would love to be on my deathbed and looked at as an icon. Right now I'm still at the baby stages of my career. But that is the goal.

The statement is that I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued.

My mom brought me up on old Hollywood. I had been living in Los Angeles. Respecting old movies and growing up with people that were icons that I got to speak to.

I feel like the modeling industry is a little bit more accepting of women who make mistakes. They appreciate the idea of icons.

Michael Jordan was a cultural icon that everybody on the playground wanted to be. The Bulls dynasty was a huge part of my childhood and it was the peak of my basketball interest as a kid.

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

Designing the prints was very much like writing a story with characters, [inspired by] some of my my favorite icons of the time: Eva Perón and Josephine Baker.

The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.

My personal style icon is Steve McQueen. My design style icon is a mix of everyone from Jackie O. to Lauren Hutton to my mother.