Quotes and Sayings About Icons
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Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
-- Aaron Stanford -
I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
-- Aisha Tyler -
Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.
-- Amitabh Bachchan -
I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.
-- Andres Serrano -
We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.
-- Anne Dudley -
I didn't really know anything about Margot Fonteyn. I'd never really been a ballet child, so I had no idea what an incredibly huge icon she was, not just in terms of a creative icon - she was also a style icon. I had no idea she was up there with Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Onassis in terms of that kind of image.
-- Anne-Marie Duff -
Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.
-- Anthony Anderson -
If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.
-- Arne Glimcher