Joanna Scott Quotes
Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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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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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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Reality is what you can count on.
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Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.
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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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Thought makes reality.
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I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
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The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.
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The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
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I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.
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All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
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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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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
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I have pretty much made up my mind to do this.
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I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I'm on iTunes constantly just buying new music!
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Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.
