“Steel is such a nice material to use. It can move. It's terribly easy, you just stick it or you cut it off, and bang! you're there: it's so direct. I think Manet was very direct, he didn't prepare his canvases like Courbet, he just put paint straight on and it's very like that with steel.” ThinkingUseMovingEasyNiceCuttingMaterialsDirectSticksPaintSteelBangs Author:Anthony Caro
“With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don't want a team of son-in-laws.” WantBodyLawPerfectNiceTeamFootballSonMaterialsManagersSoccerBullyChairmanIn-lawsWant HimToo NiceSon-in-law Author:Graeme Souness
“Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.” WorldDoeSpiritExistenceNiceBrotherMaterialsForgottenPainfulIllnessComicNecksApologyInfatuationReferringSufferersProvocationMaladyVicinity Book:Three Cases for Mr. Campion Source: Three Cases for Mr. Campion
“If it interests you, they don't have to pay you. It's a fascinating business anyway-it's very nice to be paid-but when you do thrilling material, it's like buying a piece of furniture that's really good.” IfsInterestPayPiecesNiceMaterialsPaidBuyingFascinatingFurnitureThrillingVery Nice Author:Katharine Hepburn
“I like to shoot beautiful things. My two previous movies were one in the '60s, the other one in the '50s, and this one is in the '20s. This is a period that's very cinegenic. The cars, the props, the suits, the haircuts, the dresses, everything, and it gives you pleasure to compose frames with that material. The music, I really love jazz, so for me, when you have good materials and nice things, it's very pleasant.” GivingTwoBeautifulPleasureNiceCarMaterialsPeriodsDressesJazzSuitsPleasantBeautiful ThingsNice ThingsPropsHaircuts Author:Michel Hazanavicius
“I've been trying to get into the Royal Box in New York for years. They say I'm too dirty, my material is too blue. But I think Redd, the whites and blue can be a nice combination.” ThinkingTryingYearsNiceNew YorkMaterialsBlueBoxesCombinationDirtyRoyal Author:Redd Foxx