Donnie Yen Quotes
I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
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I feel like now fashion is just part of how I think about everything. When I send out a mood board to our contributors every month about our monthly theme, there are photos from our fashion shows, but there are also film stills and album art.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
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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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There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
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I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.
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Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.
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I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.
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My children were born into this. They will always be the grandchildren of the President and First Lady of the United States.
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Whether you're a mafia guy or in advertising, you always end up going back to your family.
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Strike lustily for life, and hurry not your blows, but let each toll.
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I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.
