Weyes Blood Quotes

You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.

I don't like fancy fiddly girlie stuff.

If it ain't baroque, don't fax it.

When I make music, I tend to make music that are really over the top.

If it's extravagant, colorful and detailed, it catches my eye.

His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

For me, my way to think about everything in fashion is a very baroque way.

You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport.

Of course, DeMille never did anything on a small scale.

I don't have lavish taste.

The expression 'livin' large' is taken from the rap vernacular, inspired by Donald Trump, who made the big dollars and flaunted them.

[Characterizing Republicans:] ... the Grey Poupon crowd, the Gucci-shoe wearing, Mercedes-driving, polo-playing, jacuzzi-soaking, Perrier-drinking, Aspen-skiing, ritzy rich.

We have the word 'Mc' attached to so many things now, like 'McMansions.' It's become part of our vernacular as something on steroids almost, just bigger and bigger. I think, to a degree, studios have fallen prey to that as well.

Pride was a date night - the cool thing to do at the time - so people were dressed to the nines, and they got quite an experience, visually and otherwise. It was Cirque du Soleil meets the Super Bowl meets WrestleMania meets your favorite rock n' roll concert.

My life is extravagant.

I like this word decadent; all shimmering and purple and gold.

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a singular course to reconcile my ideas with the exigencies of Academy rules. They ask me for something religious: very well, I shall do something religious, but of the pagan religion. . . . I have always read the ancient pagans with infinite pleasure, while in Christian writers I find only system, egoism, intolerance, and a complete lack of artistic taste.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page.

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.

I liked working in advertising, but don't believe my taste in art, such as it is, was entirely formed by TV commercials. And I don't feel especially conflicted enjoying a Mantegna one day, a Carl Andre the next day and a brash student work the next.

The difficulty with color is to go beyond the fact that it's color ? to have it be not just a colorful picture but really be a picture about something. It's difficult. So often color gets caught up in color, and it becomes merly decorative. Some photographers use it brilliantly to make visual statements combining color and content; otherwise it is empty.