Italian Quotes - page 13

I cannot get over the strange conflict between my estimation of their ideas [the artists of Italian Futurism ] most of which I find brilliant and fruitful, and my view of the [their] pictures [he saw on the Walden exhibition in Berlin, Spring 2012], which strike me as, without a doubt, utterly mediocre. (Franz Marc)
What we've lost - 'I said in more or less these terms' - is the proper interest in and taste for detail. We've been noting that for a long time yet the loss is irremediable. In the old days man was everything. A human face was worth a poem. When nature appeared behind a human being it was a kind of backdrop taking the place of the dark background of portrait painters or the gold of the Italian primitives... The day when a separation took place art was diminished. It was transformed the day that the 'subject' and the 'genre' destroyed great painting, denaturing even landscapes. View quote
Eugène Fromentin
Algebraic geometry has developed in waves, each with its own language and point of view. The late nineteenth century saw the function-theoretic approach of Riemann, the more geometric approach of Brill and Noether, and the purely algebraic approach of Kronecker, Dedekind, and Weber. The Italian school followed with Castelnuovo, Enriques, and Severi, culminating in the classification of algebraic surfaces. Then came the twentieth-century "American" school of Chow, Weil, and Zariski, which gave firm algebraic foundations to the Italian intuition. Most recently, Serre and Grothendieck initiated the French school, which has rewritten the foundations of algebraic geometry in terms of schemes and cohomology, and which has an impressive record of solving old problems with new techniques. Each of these schools has introduced new concepts and methods. View quote
Robin Hartshorne
It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting. View quote
Felicity Huffman
I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film. View quote
Alexander Payne
It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters. View quote
Alice Hamilton
BUT, in terms of attractiveness, speaking in terms of physical aspects only I think that Argentinean, Italian, Mexican, and Spanish men are among the most attractive men. View quote
Alicia Machado
I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry. View quote
Allegra Huston
I'm a really good cook. I bake a lot. I cook dinner most nights. I cook everything from Italian food to Mexican food. But if I'm going to some place and it's a potluck, I'm always the one to bring dessert! View quote
Amanda Schull
My husband is actually Italian-American, and he thought I was Italian when he first met me. View quote
Andrea Navedo
A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics. (Anibal Cavaco Silva)
All the suits I buy have to be tailored, no matter what. But it's not just because of my height; it's because I've been skating for so long. My waist is very small, but my legs are just huge. Most really nice suit makers are Italian, and usually they make suit pants for Italian men. I'm like, 'Those Italians must have pretty skinny legs.' View quote
Apolo Ohno
I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in ethnic groups: Latin, Italian, Jewish. View quote
Arne Glimcher
I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing. View quote
Bill Hader
Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard. View quote
Brunello Cucinelli
Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology. View quote
Barbara Steele
My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god. View quote
Chazz Palminteri
Im Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures. View quote
Chelsea Peretti
I ate fantastic Italian food in Croatia, which you wouldn't expect. The food in Istanbul was amazing. I never would've expected that and the food, I guess you're learning something about me, the food in Prague, they're very, very heavy meat eaters, like, a lot of meat, which is great. View quote
Cliff Curtis
I love being Italian. View quote
Connie Stevens
I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went. (David Naughton)
The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian. View quote
Diane von Furstenberg
Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor. View quote
Diego Della Valle
Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it. View quote
Elizabeth Edwards
The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid. View quote
Ed Stoppard