Quotes About Icon

What seems so solid and certain is really part of the ceaseless pull-it-down-build-it-again pattern of history, where the turbulence of the past is recast as landmark, as icon, as tradition, as what we defend, what we uphold--until it's time to call in the wrecking ball.

Elvis Presley's death was a turning point in news coverage;

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

Princess Diana was an icon and her effect on the world remains profound and inspiring. To explore her through Peter Morgan's writing is the most exceptional opportunity and I will strive to do her justice.

I got the famous Oprah hug!

In the Orthodox religion, you don't draw the human figure. It's against the rules.

I don't think Pele was the ultimate hero for our generation, he is the ultimate hero of every generation of Brazilians.

When you become a mega-icon overnight, there's no way to keep that intensity continually going.

Listen—when you're on the toilet, from the point of view of the toilet, you are not an icon taking a crap. You are a bottom taking a crap. If you can get that, you're going to be okay.

Yes, Saul Alinsky, icon of the political left, whose admirers include Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, commenced his magnum opus—the one for which he is hailed by progressives, a book not only read by Clinton but used as a text by Obama in Chicago as a teacher of community organizing—with an acknowledgement of the devil.

People going to see the Mona Lisa, not to look at it, but because it's the Mona Lisa

Frida is a detour and a distraction. It was her genius as an artist, and her neurotic narcissism, to turn her whole self into art—her love, her suffering, her accident-prone life—and in the process make herself an icon, for the Mexican tradition is full of icons, especially of madonnas.

The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.

Bruce Lee brought the martial arts movie to the attention of the world - and without him, I don't think that anyone would have ever heard of Jackie Chan.

I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.

Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.

Andy Warhol goes to the Big Soup Can in the Sky.

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.

Those on Whom Legends Are Built Are Their Legends

Well, I think 'Addams Family Values' is definitely a gay icon movie and definitely a drag queen icon movie that no one ever talks about.

Marco van Basten - I never saw him properly play but I know he was pretty good.

I have been a muse to Mr. Saint-Laurent, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Versace.

As far as I'm concerned the last good man went when Elvis died.

No one thought it odd that at her funeral Elton John should perform a reworking of the song he had originally composed as hero-worship to Marilyn Monroe, for she too was an icon for a secular age and in the end icons of that kind are interchangeable.