Ian Hislop - Best Quotes

I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad – he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was – ever.

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

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.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou 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.

Author: Ian Hislop

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more that everyone's given up.

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny very verbal very clever very witty.

I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad – he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was – ever.

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.