R.J. Newman Quotes

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

We don't take pictures with cameras, we take them with our hearts and minds.

The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

What we got here is a failure to communicate.

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.

I think it's very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.

I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I don't look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community.

We don't take photographs with our cameras, we take them with our hearts and our minds. They are a reflection of ourselves...wha t we are and what we think.

We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas.

Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance

I would like it if people would think that beyond Newman, there's a spirit that takes action, a heart, and a talent that doesn't come from my blue eyes.

I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.

A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.

The need is great and so are the opportunities to make a difference.

Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.

I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

It seems to me that no one picture can ever be a final summation of a personality. There are so many facets in every human being that it is impossible to present them all in one photograph.

How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?

There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.

What could be better than to hold your hand out to people less fortunate than you are?

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.

Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.

We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.

For those of you who like to scarf your popcorn in the sack, the good news is that Newman's Own contains an aphrodisiac.

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.