Maya Lin Quotes
I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.Maya Lin
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the art of the next best.
Otto von Bismarck -
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
Pat Metheny -
I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
Xavier Dolan -
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 -
Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
Daniel Barenboim
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso -
I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
T. C. Boyle -
I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
Nate Lowman -
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 -
The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
Larry Gagosian -
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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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West -
I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
Larry Ellison -
I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.
Omari Hardwick -
My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.
Beau Bridges -
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
F. Sionil Jose -
When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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Think about what you do from 9 to 5 each weekday. Now imagine you put that much effort into something you really believe in. It's incredible what you can accomplish when you have both the interest to do something original (which everyone has) and the time to make it happen (which few have).
Ben Clymer -
Interviewing Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo and John Galliano in Paris, both for 'Pop' magazine, were huge for me, not just in learning about fashion and writing but about how little desire I had to be a critic/reporter/journalist/commentator so much as a kind of travel diarist.
Tavi Gevinson -
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
John Cheever -
People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.
David Petraeus -
I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.
Maya Lin