George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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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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My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.
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As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
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They're not poodles, they're art.
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What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.
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I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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The art of storytelling is in development, not fact sheets. There are posts you have to hammer into the ground from the start just to get going, but if they don't hold up the house you build, you can change them or take them out.
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Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.
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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
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For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!'
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Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.
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All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the rhythmic changes there are.
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Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society, so don't back down.
Garry Kasparov -
An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
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Teams tend to fold if you come out and play hard in the beginning.
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Fine art is the only teacher except torture.
