David Alan Grier - Best Quotes

When I was a kid I wanted to walk with my dad's limp – my dad was my hero – but that infuriated him and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I was very much into buying contemporary art but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art but all of a sudden my mood has changed and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues' this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Author: David Alan Grier

As I get older my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

When I was a kid I wanted to walk with my dad's limp – my dad was my hero – but that infuriated him and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.