Maurice Denis Quotes
Painting is first of all the art of imitation, and not the servant of some imaginary 'purity'
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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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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Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!
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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.
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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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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Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
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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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The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
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I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.
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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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The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.
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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
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If you have any doubt about the degree with which this is self-defense, just look at those pictures from September 11th.
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Nobody is all good or all bad.
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I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least in my lifetime, there has been a tremendous combining of activism and music, that came up in the era of Pete Seeger and the Weavers and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and Peter Paul & Mary.
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Painting is first of all the art of imitation, and not the servant of some imaginary 'purity'
