We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
It figures you've got to hate yourself if you've got any integrity at all.
To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.
She was afraid, but she couldn't just sit around waiting for someone to save her. She had to try to save herself, try to figure it out.
Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.
But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.
If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it.
Ask yourself: Where do I want to go? Recognize where you are now, then figure out the steps to get there.
My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.
My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.
I had never supported a political figure - and I went out and supported Obama.
Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.
All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.
Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they have deprived their kids of the second parent, and so they tend to give in to the children's requests, even when unreasonable.
I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.
I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.
Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.
I was always doing films, but the ceramics didn't come until later. I did take ceramics in university, which gave me an appetite for the medium, but I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do with it yet.
I feel that other people's suggestions are very dangerous. Yet, I can't say that they are always destructive or not useful. Perhaps, rather than having other people tell you how you should improve your work, they should just tell you how they understand your work, what they got out of it, so that you can figure out yourself if what you did was right or wrong.