Jane Hirshfield Quotes
What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.
Jane Hirshfield
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I've been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing 'Yellowstone' and am grateful that it has found a home in the Paramount Network. The show is both timely and timeless.
Taylor Sheridan
My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
Kate McKinnon
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson
That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
Kate Bush
I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.
Carlos Slim
I love art that haunts me, that stays with me, that is left embedded in my mind. I don't really think there is any use for owning or collecting art; it is more about remembering and preserving it in the minds eye and allowing it into your cultural DNA.
Doug Aitken
I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this 'ambient music.' But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music, in that it changed the way that music changes.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.
Bonnie Hammer
Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, A good mouth-filling oath.
William Shakespeare
I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.
Salma Hayek
What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.
Jane Hirshfield
