Du Yun Quotes

A lot of times, politics, global issues are very black and white. There is a place for that, but it's also fantastic to have art side by side, from different viewpoints, open for interpretations.

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• From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • Black
  • Day

• I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Writing
  • Art
  • College

• When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Political
  • Action
  • Place

• I studied mass media and brand management and was looking to do an MBA. When an acting offer came by, I thought I'll do one film so that it would look good on my CV. Films happened one after another, in different industries. I'm so glad things turned out the way they did.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Good
  • Different
  • Thought

• One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Fall

• The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Black
  • Everybody

• Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Men
  • Black

• There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Black

• I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Art

• The thing about Donald Trump, he is a different candidate.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Different
  • Trump
  • Donald Trump

• But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Art
  • Business
  • Creative

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Different
  • Night
  • City

• Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Art
  • Control
  • Cooking

• If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Different
  • Success
  • Story

• A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Me
  • Idea

• "Celebrity" is sort of an idea. I mean, I get to do something extraordinary, but I don't think it makes me extraordinary. That's my opinion. I like to be an artist, I like to do things that are involved in the arts, but I don't think it makes me more special than a doctor, for example. A doctor is an extraordinary person. Doctors should be celebrities. We just entertain people. They save lives.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Art

• Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Journalism
  • Catapult
  • Pigmy

• We say that our world must think of and listen to consumers, and this is true, but not too much, in the sense that if you want to change and innovate, you must also think with your own head. Maybe you make choices that the market is not ready to accept but that will be accepted in 18 or 24 months.

  

  Marco Bizzarri
  • World
  • True
  • Choices

• I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it.

  

  Jeffrey Jones
  • People
  • Work
  • Interesting

• I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person.

  

  Jon Ronson
  • Fearless

• A lot of times, politics, global issues are very black and white. There is a place for that, but it's also fantastic to have art side by side, from different viewpoints, open for interpretations.

  

  Du Yun
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  • Art
  • Black