John Cheever Quotes
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I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
Vince Vaughn
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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.
Xavier Dolan
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
Kami Garcia
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
Hans Hofmann
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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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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
Lady Gaga
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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.
Larry Gagosian
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
Kate Micucci
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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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At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
Barbara Hepworth
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Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'
Adam Davidson
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
Katarina Witt
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
Washed Out
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There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
Jacob Epstein
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
Ralph Fiennes
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My painting does not come from the easel.
Jackson Pollock
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You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.
Kat Graham
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I see a lot of art; we see a lot of music, films at Sundance... that influences me and informs me more than theater just because I make a bigger effort to see other art forms.
Elizabeth Marvel
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Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.
Brenda Laurel
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We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.
Nina Easton
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I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
Larry Page
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Art is the triumph over chaos.
John Cheever