Seventies Quotes - Page 20

• Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists, but if we're going to use such idiotic appellations, let this one also be applied to the artists, curators, and gallerists who emerged in the first half of the nineties.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Generations, Use

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• Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.

  Dale Carnegie

  Worry, Physicians, Patient

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.32, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Numbers, Space

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• As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade.

  Jerry Saltz

  Thinking, Exhibitions, Lines

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• After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Important, New Life

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• 'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.

  Rob Sheffield

  Flower, Night, Urban Legends

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• Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.

  Russell Baker

  Years, President, Might

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• I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

  David Bailey

  Thinking, Feminist, Terrible Times

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• If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.

  Kelly Ripa

  Math, Skills, Waiting

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• One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.

  Albert Camus

  Thinking, Years, Guilt

  Albert Camus (1965). “Caligula and Cross purpose”

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• 'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

  Rob Sheffield

  Lonely, Kids, Way

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• They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Mistake, Clubs

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• I can truly say, after an experience of seventy years, that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my whole life, are light, when balanced with my sufferings in childhood and youth from the theological dogmas which I sincerely believed. . . . The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstitions of the Christian religion.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Christian, Memories, Disappointment

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• People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

  Leonora Carrington

  Cat, People, Seven

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• I've got a feeling I'm leaving stardom behind, you know. I'm gradually becoming more of a filmmaker, acquiring a different kind of dignity from that which you achieve in acting. After all, I'm no matinee idol, and I'm getting older. I don't think I can be doing my kind of thing in the seventies; I want to be on more of the creative side of business.

  Steve McQueen

  Thinking, Idols, Creative

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• Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.

  Michael Steele

  Party, Struggle, Rights

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• There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.

  Don Marquis

  Years, Mosquitoes, Sage

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• I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other.

  Lord Byron

  Two, Hatred, Religion

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2722, Delphi Classics

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• No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

  Francis Bacon

  Time, Artist, Years

  David Sylvester, Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon”, Pantheon

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• If you're going to do a memoir, then it's sort of at this age - in your late sixties or seventies - that you do it. I don't understand people who do memoirs when they're 20. I think most people need a little more time than 20 years to become the person they are. In fact, that process of becoming who you are is still ongoing when you get older, where you go, "Let's see where my next 10 years is going to take me." S

  Grace Coddington

  Thinking, Years, Becoming Who You Are

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Horse, Literature, Language

  Interview with Janet Justs, ejournals.lib.vt.edu. November 6, 2003.

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• Seventy-six percent of the American people say we have a spiritual problem in our country. That's great, because now they understand the root of the problem is not that we haven't passed enough laws; rather, the root of the problem is in terms of our social value system.

  Charles Colson

  Spiritual, Country, Social Values

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• She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weight on her chest and breathed its pungent dog breath in her face. On those days she called in sick to the IT shop where, most days, she untangled tangled networks for a song. On those days she pulled down the shades and ran dark for twelve or twenty-four or seventy-two hours, however long it took for the black dog to go on home to its dark master.

  Lev Grossman

  Crush, Dog, Song

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• You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

  Italo Calvino

  Cities, Giving, Delight

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• Awesome! I'd just bullied Jesus into doing a shot with me. Nobody would ever believe it, but I didn't care. We ordered the insanely expensive stuff, seventy-five dollars for a 1.75-ounce pour of premium Irish whiskey, because if you're doing a shot with Jesus, you don't buy him scotch.

  Kevin Hearne

  Jesus, Believe, Scotch

  Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hammered (with bonus short story): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Three”, p.116, Del Rey

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