George C. Wolfe Quotes
I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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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 that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.
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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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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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I love Somali foods like canjeero, a pancakelike bread; same for pizza, burgers, and sushi.
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After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
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Because of engineering, I have been able to experience things I never thought I would be able to do as an undergraduate.
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A man's style should be like his dress. It should be as unobtrusive and should attract as little attention as possible.
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I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.
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Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.
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I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful.
