Plato Quotes
The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.Plato
Quotes to Explore
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
Frances Mayes -
Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
Natasha Leggero -
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver -
If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
Idries Shah -
A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
Gary Oldman -
I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
Flume -
Modeling has always played off my D.J.-ing, but it is a fun supplement.
Harley Viera-Newton -
Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds -
Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
Taylor Hackford -
When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
Gary Cherone Van Halen
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. Henry -
Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.
Nastassja Kinski -
I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
Daniel Alarcon -
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
J. J. Abrams -
What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.
D. B. Sweeney -
Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.
Said Musa
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Most artists I know are private, and quiet folks who often spend most of their days alone in a studio.
Dan Santat -
We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.
Zack Wamp -
Love is so irrational and it's not so easy to start all over again after you had given everything to a relationship.
Eros Ramazzotti -
It is obvious, that theory alone, can never make a good artist; and it is equally obvious, that practice unaided by theory, can never correct errors, but must establish them.
Emma Willard -
An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.
Eric Maisel -
The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.
Plato