Max Jacob Quotes
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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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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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
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Of course managers win ball games.
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.
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I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student. I wanted to learn the actual idea of what this industry was before I could creatively speak a lot of the things that I wanted to speak.
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The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
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A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.
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Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.
