Quotes About Perception

A lot of my work is about is about events, but I also think a lot of my work is about fragmentation.... You have to break something down in order to have the parts synthesize.

He was good in business, but there was business left to do. He never said he loved me, guess he thought I knew.

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.

I don't want to discount the beautiful work that the fashion houses do, but somehow, just focusing on what you're wearing feels reductive.

I'm trying to work on my modelling career and remove myself from the whole FHM stigma.

When I told my son that I had to give a talk about my work to non-mathematicians, he warned me that regular people don't think like mathematicians.

Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

A man will never know a woman until he knows her work.

I'm sure. But it doesn't work with me. for one thing, you won't look me in the eye. As for the other...I don't know. I can just tell.

My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.

Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.

The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at our work-in-progress as if it were previously unseen.

You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.

The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.

There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as a successful actor.

Thats the worst thing, I don't really care if people say I'm a bad actor, I can like work on that, but if they just say that he's ugly thats just like "oh.. really?

I have very, very specific ideas about how I want to do my work and how I want to be perceived and to the point of ridiculousness sometimes.

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

I'm a good judge of my own work.

Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.

Anytime you do a job, especially one that's as intense and long as this one was, you have phantom work syndrome. I'm constantly feeling like I'm miked, so I'm careful of what I say all the time.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

I measure the success of my work by the way I feel about a film before anyone else has seen it. I think I can trust myself to know when the work is good and deep and interesting and when it isn't.