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.
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.
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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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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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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.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.
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My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.
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Very few people know why art sells so high. I don’t even know.
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I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
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The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.
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The Misfits skull was my second tattoo, and the Danzig was my third.
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I've been applying makeup long enough to feel good doing it on my own, but I cannot do my hair to save my life. When left to my own devices, if I have to go to an event, I do a slicked bun. Otherwise, I just try to wear a hat, put it in a ponytail, or do a side braid - something easy.
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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.
