John Corigliano Quotes
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Politics is the art of the next best.
Otto von Bismarck -
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso -
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
Oscar Wilde -
As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
Ha-Joon Chang -
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 -
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
Daniel Bell -
The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
Ad Reinhardt -
But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso -
I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.
Laura Mennell -
I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
Lady Gaga
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I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.
Barry McGee -
Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'
Olivia Wilde -
For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
Felix de Weldon -
I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.
J. August Richards -
I am by trade a designer, and I did Fine Art for my degree.
Samantha Cameron
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I put pressure on myself all the time. I felt it so much with 'Sax,' but I had to just let go and enjoy it.
Fleur East -
Quien busca en su bien un bien mayor, pierde su bien.
Antonio Porchia -
In oral societies it is recognized that the telling of a story to a different audience or in a different context or for a different reason calls for a different version of the story. Stories are molded to the time and circumstance in which they are told.
Bart Ehrman -
I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.
Robert James Ritchi -
My friend Danny Clinch, who's a photographer, gave me a big, signed, numbered print of a photo he took of Eddie Vedder in Seattle. It's hung in my writing room where I have posters of writers that inspire me. They're all pointing at me. Tom Waits is like, 'Don't sell out!'
Brian Fallon -
I think art can reflect tragedy.
John Corigliano