Billy Al Bengston Quotes
The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
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In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.
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I'm a nature girl. I grew up in Colorado and was always outside. I still am, even when I'm in the city.
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I have always focused on the bottom line.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.
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I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment.
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I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.
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Every credible scientist on earth says your products harm the environment. I recommend paying weasels to write articles casting doubt on the data. Then eat the wrong kind of foods and hope you die before the earth does.
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I’m not as cool as you think I think I might be – and the most important things in my life are God, love and peace. Everything else is b.s. And art’s kind of important, too.
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Everything great in western culture has come from the quarrel with nature.
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Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
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The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.
