Wassily Kandinsky Quotes
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
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To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
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Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.
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I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.
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I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
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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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I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.
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I always take off my makeup. My mother always told me to do this, and I never go to bed without doing it. I use a good moisturizer and Mario Badescu face wash.
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I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?
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But I want to do good work, after this series.
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None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.
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World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
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I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work.
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For me, my country comes first. Nothing else matters but my country. I always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love, and that's all I ever tried to do through my work and my cinema.
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They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
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On stage, you have nothing to hide behind. It allows the work to live in a more organic place. It's almost like a meditation. You have to go on that stage and be as present as possible.
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Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
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Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it.
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There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.
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Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
