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.
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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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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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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 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.
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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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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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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.
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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!'
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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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.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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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.
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My painting does not come from the easel.
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You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.
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Art is collaboration: we are artists all over the world. I believe that people are always going to watch Hindi films... that's never going to die, but I think it's amazing that collaborations like that are happening.
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When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.
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Not everything has to be a couples' event.
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When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.
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Art is the triumph over chaos.
