#hero

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#andy #andy warhol #art #art world #artists

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#came #give #hero #things #too

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#heroes #makes #surmounting

First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve. ↗

— George Pataki

#first #heroes #how #our #resolve

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same. ↗

— John Thorn

#grow #heroes #old #our #ruin

You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#as far as #because #ever #everyday #families

I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes. ↗

— Barry Pepper

#harrison #heroes #i #identify #those

But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#actions #character #commonplace #convincing #each

I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#fast #go #hero #how #i

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#character #endears #especially #films #get-go