Glenn Gould Quotes

I can't stand light. I hate weather.

I'm not one for neon colors.

The sight of burnt orange makes me puke.

By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light.

Sometimes we smile at a child thats afraid of the dark. I think more ridiculous is a man or woman afraid of the light.

This Roberto. He no like the light.

The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.

The tulips are too red...they hurt me.

You should see what she’s wearing, Callie. It’s velvet. Canary yellow velvet. Turban to match. She looks like a furry banana.

The floor of ice cream parlor bothered me. It was black-and-white checkboard tile, bigger than supermarket checkboard. If I looked only at a white square, I would be all right, but it was hard to ignore the black squares that surrounded the white ones. The contrast got under my skin. The floor meant yes, no, this, that, up, down, day, night -all the indecisions and opposites that were bad enough in life without having them spelled out for you on the floor.

I'm originally from Tampa and grew up on beach. I'm also naturally fair-skinned. The funny thing is, my parents are both pretty tan, but for some reason I didn't get those genes.

I hated the goggles, don’t get me wrong, but I felt naked without them. Almost like playing without a helmet.

Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart sage.

What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of only forty-five degrees. And furthermore, what is in Nature separated by large spaces, is compressed into a cramped space and overfills and oversatiates the eye, creating an unfavorable and disquieting effect on the viewer.

Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.

Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten - light's no good for creatures of the night.

I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film

Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.

I hate the color red almost as much as i hate blond hair,"he said with an amused tone. -Dank

The muted color scheme allows the occasional brighter yellow or red to pop out on the wall in a show, which I like.

3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches.

I've never actually seen a 3-D movie. I've seen some dailies in 3-D and it kind of gives me a headache. But it looks really cool.

If I keep coming back to a painting and there's a little something that bothers me, I know I'm not going to get away with it. I'm going to have to fix it, change it, whatever it is, to something that I'm comfortable with, that doesn't make me itch when I look at it.

I used to get headaches in 3D movies, and I didn't want the movie to give people headaches.