Oscar Wilde Quotes
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.Oscar Wilde
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
T. C. Boyle -
I'm not making films just to be bold.
Yash Chopra -
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali -
You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
Abhishek Bachchan -
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
Fab Five Freddy -
Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
Gavin Newsom
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
Oscar Wilde -
As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.
Vicente Fox -
I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
Ted Kotcheff -
I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
Maika Monroe -
Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
Larry Rivers -
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Ed Koch
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
Tarsem Singh -
Tell the lie over and over and over. It's an art that Trump understands well. There's no better evidence than his absolutely false claim that he opposed the Iraq War in 2002.
Pamela Meyer -
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso -
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
Damien Hirst -
You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.
Garry Kasparov
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Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.
P. J. O'Rourke -
In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.
Victor Davis Hanson -
I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too. But I think he should be more careful.
Andy Rooney -
Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde