Max Jacob Quotes
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
Fernando Botero
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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.
Nancy Kress
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
Hans Hofmann
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
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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.
Eamon de Valera
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
Gavin Newsom
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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.
R. J. Cutler
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There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.
Dak Prescott
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I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.
Harold Ford, Jr.
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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.
Jack Bowman
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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.
Walter Pater
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West
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Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
Larry Rivers
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Of course managers win ball games.
Walter Alston
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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.
Yoko Ono
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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.
Carlene Carter
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant
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Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.
Plato
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Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.
Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains
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The world of demons, fallen Angels, is very real - a fact we need to know. We have to face up to this terrible reality, so that we do not fall unsuspectingly into their hands and come under their tyranny.
Bernhard Schlink
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Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.
Max Jacob