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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My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.
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Canon is basically a very aggressive company. Our company works on competitive principles. It does not treat people equally, but it does treat them fairly.
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Women writers specifically... are the ultimate outsiders.
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Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass from one concrete object to its habitual concrete successor far more uniformly than is the case with us. In other words, their associations of ideas are almost exclusively by contiguity. So far, however, as any brute might think by abstract characters instead of by association of con cretes, he would have to be admitted to be a reasoner in the true human sense. How far this may take place is quite uncertain.
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Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.
