Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
O little booke, thou art so unconning, How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Quotes to Explore
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
Fernando Botero
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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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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
Wendy Carlos
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
Fab Five Freddy
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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
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
Ha-Joon Chang
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Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
Kanye West
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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
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
Fran Lebowitz
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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
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Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'
Yaya Han
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To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.
Adolph Gottlieb
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I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you're allowed to excavate whatever it is that you're struggling with, and hopefully turn it into art.
Sandra Bullock
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Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of the spirit!
Carol Emshwiller
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I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.
Penelope Lively
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
Waris Ahluwalia
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O little booke, thou art so unconning, How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?
Geoffrey Chaucer
