Glenn O'Brien famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Fashion is what everyone is doing. Style is what you are doing.
-- Glenn O'Brien

#Fashion #Style
Our odd idea of the classical world, the white Washington, D.C., is based on buildings that were originally brightly painted.
-- Glenn O'Brien

#World #Odd #Building
I have never really liked gigantic-scale painting. I think that so many artists are seduced by scale - "Well, if I make it that big then it has to go in a museum."
-- Glenn O'Brien

#Thinking #Artist #Painting
I think lowering the age of consent to thirteen in New Jersey was a great idea. It might give boys a better chance to get girls before magaÂzines. That's when they get hooked, in junior high.
-- Glenn O'Brien

#Girl #Boys #Thinking

Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.
Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.
The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness.
Fashion is about good energy. It's about feelings. That's what I have to give the people, good energy and good feelings.
Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.
I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.
People tend to have one of three 'styles' of interaction. There are takers, who are always trying to serve themselves; matchers, who are always trying to get equal benefit for themselves and others; and givers, who are always trying to help people.

Glenn O'Brien famous quotes

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