Personal Statement Quotes

• Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Dresses, Haute Couture

  "Chanel : A Woman of Her Own" by Axel Madsen, (p. 124), 1991.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• "Simply look with perceptive eyes at the world about you, and trust to your own reactions and convictions. Ask yourself: "Does this subject move me to feel, think and dream? Can I visualize a print - my own personal statement of what I feel and want to convey - from the subject before me?""

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Dream, Moving

  8 Copy quote

• I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

  Zaha Hadid

  Fashion, Kids, London

  4 Copy quote

• 'Band on the Run' is a carefully composed, intricately designed personal statement that will make it impossible for anyone to classify Paul McCartney as a mere stylist again.

  Jon Landau

  Running, Band, Stylist

  4 Copy quote

• The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men's results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That's what the word means.

  Ezra Pound

  Mean, Men, Made

  Ezra Pound (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think 'Comic Book: The Movie' is the apex of my career in terms of making a personal statement that has significance to me and resonates with biographical detail about not only my career, but all the people that I've worked with in my career. All of it's riddled, on- and off-camera, with people I've known and worked with for decades.

  Mark Hamill

  Book, Thinking, Careers

  "An Interview With Mark Hamill" by Ken P., www.ign.com. February 3, 2004.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• With journalism, films always have to be to do with some personal statement of your own. As a general rule, I resist that. In the States, a question that kept coming up was this: how can you, as a man, talk about three women?

  Stephen Daldry

  Men, Three, Journalism

  "He'll turn his hand to anything". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2002.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's the statement of the culture of England and Britain that someone would try to con a personal statement out of you to then be broadcast everywhere for everyone to debate.

  Frank Lampard

  Trying, Culture, England

  "'I'm not scum' - Frank Lampard rants on radio after DJ labels him a bad father". Interview with James O’Brien, www.dailymail.co.uk. April 25, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, "Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear." Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up.

  Albert Ellis

  Stupid, Food, Personality

  11 Copy quote